Saatsi, Juha and Reutlinger, Alexander (2017) Taking Reductionism to the Limit: How to Rebut the Anti-Reductionist Argument from Infinite Limits. [Preprint]
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This paper analyses the anti-reductionist argument from renormalisation group explanations of universality, and shows how it can be rebutted if one assumes that the explanation in question is captured by the counterfactual dependence account of explanation.
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| Additional Information: | forthcoming in Philosophy of Science | |||||||||
| Keywords: | reductionism, reduction, emergence, renormalization group explanation, universality, non-causal explanation, counterfactual account of explanation | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Reductionism/Holism Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics |
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| Depositing User: | Alexander Reutlinger | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 17 Oct 2017 14:41 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 17 Oct 2017 14:41 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 14029 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Reductionism/Holism Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics |
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| Date: | October 2017 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14029 |
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