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Reduction, Explanation, and Realism (Hardcover)
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Reduction, Explanation, and Realism (Hardcover)
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What is reduction? Must all discussions of the mind, value, color,
biological organisms, and persons aim to reduce these to objects
and properties that can be studied by more basic, physical science?
Conversely, does failure to achieve a reduction undermine the
legitimacy of higher levels of description or explanation? Though
reduction has long been a favorite method of analysis in all areas
of philosophy, in recent years philosophers have attempted to avoid
these traditional alternatives by developing an account of
higher-level phenomena which shows them to be grounded in, but not
reducible to, basic physical objects and properties. The
contributors to this volume examine the motivations for such
anti-reductionist views, and assess their coherence and success, in
a number of different fields, including moral and mental
philosophy, psychology, organic biology, and the social sciences.
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