List, Christian (2022) Levels of Description and Levels of Reality: A General Framework. [Preprint]

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This expository paper presents a general framework for representing levels and inter-level relations. The framework is intended to capture both epistemic and ontological notions of levels and to clarify the sense in which levels of explanation might or might not be related to a levelled ontology. The framework also allows us to study and compare different kinds of inter-level relations, especially supervenience and reduction but also grounding and mereological constitution. This, in turn, enables us to explore questions such as whether supervenience implies explanatory reducibility and whether there can be irreducible higher-level explanations or even “emergent” higher-level properties.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID List, Christian
Keywords:	Levels of description, levels of explanation, levels of reality, supervenience, reduction, grounding, constitution, emergence
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Reductionism/Holism
Depositing User:	Christian List
Date Deposited:	29 Aug 2022 14:18
Last Modified:	29 Aug 2022 14:18
Item ID:	21103
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Reductionism/Holism
Date:	29 August 2022
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21103

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