Being reduced: new essays on reduction, explanation, and causation

Being Reduced: New Essays on Reduction,

📁 Being Reduced: New Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and Causation

✍ Jakob Hohwy, Jesper Kallestrup 📂 Library 📅 2008 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

There are few more unsettling philosophical questions than this: What happens in attempts to reduce some properties to some other more fundamental properties? Reflection on this question inevitably touches on very deep issues about ourselves, our own interactions with the world and each other, and

Being Reduced: New Essays on Reduction,

📁 Being Reduced: New Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and Causation

✍ Jakob Hohwy, Jesper Kallestrup 📂 Library 📅 2008 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

There are few more unsettling philosophical questions than this: What happens in attempts to reduce some properties to some other more fundamental properties? Reflection on this question inevitably touches on very deep issues about ourselves, our own interactions with the world and each other, and

Explanation Beyond Causation: Philosophi

📁 Explanation Beyond Causation: Philosophical Perspectives on Non-Causal Explanations

✍ Alexander Reutlinger (editor), Juha Saatsi (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Explanations are important to us in many contexts: in science, mathematics, philosophy, and also in everyday and juridical contexts. But what is an explanation? In the philosophical study of explanation, there is long-standing, influential tradition that links explanation intimately to causation: we

Explanation, Causation and Deduction

📁 Explanation, Causation and Deduction

✍ Fred Wilson (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 1985 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English

<p>The purpose of this essay is to defend the deductive-nomological model of explanation against a number of criticisms that have been made of it. It has traditionally been thought that scientific explanations were causal and that scientific explanations involved deduction from laws. In recent years

New Mechanism: Explanation, Emergence an

📁 New Mechanism: Explanation, Emergence and Reduction

✍ João L. Cordovil, Gil Santos, Davide Vecchi 📂 Library 📅 2023 🏛 Springer 🌐 English

This open access book addresses the epistemological and ontological significance as well as the scope of new mechanism. In particular, this book addresses the issues of what is "new" about new mechanism, the epistemological and ontological reasons underlying the adoption of mechanistic instead of ot

New Mechanism: Explanation, Emergence an

📁 New Mechanism: Explanation, Emergence and Reduction

✍ João L. Cordovil, Gil Santos, Davide Vecchi 📂 Library 📅 2023 🏛 Springer 🌐 English

This open access book addresses the epistemological and ontological significance as well as the scope of new mechanism. In particular, this book addresses the issues of what is "new" about new mechanism, the epistemological and ontological reasons underlying the adoption of mechanistic instead of ot

Being reduced: new essays on reduction, explanation, and causation

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