Knox, Eleanor (2017) Novel Explanation in the Special Sciences: Lessons from physics. [Preprint]
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Abstract
This paper aims to understand how recent discussion of novel and robust behaviour in physics might be applied in biology and other special sciences. In particular, it looks at the prospects for extending an account of novel explanation to biological examples. Despite the differences in the disciplines, the prospects look good, at least when we look at a biological example in which a certain kind of reduction is possible.
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Keywords: | Novel Explanation, Emergence, Reduction, Neural networks, normal modes, change of variables | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Neuroscience General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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Depositing User: | Dr Eleanor Knox | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 08 Sep 2017 13:48 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 08 Sep 2017 13:48 | ||||||
Item ID: | 13406 | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Neuroscience General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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Date: | February 2017 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/13406 |
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