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What's Wrong With Microphysicalism? (Paperback)
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What's Wrong With Microphysicalism? (Paperback)
Series: International Library of Philosophy
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'Microphysicalism', the view that whole objects behave the way they
do in virtue of the behaviour of their constituent parts, is an
influential contemporary view with a long philosophical and
scientific heritage. In What's Wrong With Microphysicalism? Andreas
Huttemann offers a fresh challenge to this view. Huttemann agrees
with the microphysicalists that we can explain compound systems by
explaining their parts, but claims that this does not entail a
fundamentalism that gives hegemony to the micro-level. At most, it
shows that there is a relationship of determination between parts
and wholes, but there is no justification for taking this
relationship to be asymmetrical rather than one of mutual
dependence. Huttemann argues that if this is the case, then
microphysicalists have no right to claim that the micro-level is
the ultimate agent: neither the parts nor the whole have
'ontological priority'. Huttemann advocates a pragmatic pluralism,
allowing for different ways to describe nature. What's Wrong With
Microphysicalism? is a convincing and original contribution to
central issues in contemporary philosophy of mind, philosophy of
science and metaphysics.
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