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Power and Influence - The Metaphysics of Reductive Explanation (Hardcover)
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Power and Influence - The Metaphysics of Reductive Explanation (Hardcover)
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The world is a complex place, and this complexity is an obstacle to
our attempts to explain, predict, and control it. In Power and
Influence, Richard Corry investigates the assumptions that are
built into the reductive method of explanation-the method whereby
we study the components of a complex system in relative isolation
and use the information so gained to explain or predict the
behaviour of the complex whole. He investigates the metaphysical
presuppositions built into the reductive method, seeking to
ascertain what the world must be like in order that the method
could work. Corry argues that the method assumes the existence of
causal powers that manifest causal influence-a relatively
unrecognised ontological category, of which forces are a paradigm
example. The success of the reductive method, therefore, is an
argument for the existence of such causal influences. The book goes
on to show that adding causal influence to our ontology gives us
the resources to solve some traditional problems in the metaphysics
of causal powers, laws of nature, causation, emergence, and
possibly even normative ethics. What results, then, is not just an
understanding of the reductive method, but an integrated
metaphysical worldview that is grounded in an ontology of power and
influence.
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