Dizadji-Bahmani, Foad and Frigg, Roman and Hartmann, Stephan (2010) Who's Afraid of Nagelian Reduction? [Preprint]
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Abstract
We reconsider the Nagelian theory of reduction and argue that, contrary to a widely held view, it is the right analysis of intertheoretic reduction, since the alleged difficulties of the theory either vanish upon closer inspection or turn out to be substantive philosophical questions rather than knock-down arguments.
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Additional Information: | This paper will appear in Erkenntnis. | ||||||||||||
Keywords: | Reduction, bridge laws, multiple realisability | ||||||||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Reductionism/Holism Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics General Issues > Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism |
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Depositing User: | Stephan Hartmann | ||||||||||||
Date Deposited: | 30 Apr 2010 | ||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 12 Jul 2024 17:28 | ||||||||||||
Item ID: | 5323 | ||||||||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Reductionism/Holism Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics General Issues > Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism |
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Date: | April 2010 | ||||||||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/5323 |
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