Add to ORKGThis paper addresses the recent resurgence of Nagel style reduction in the philosophical literature. In particular, it considers the so-called multiple realizability objection to reductionism presented most forcefully by Sober in 1999. It is argued that this objection misses the point of multiple realizability and that there remain serious problems for reductionist methodologies in science
In previous work, I described several examples combining reduction and emergence: where reduction is...
This paper examines the multiple realizability thesis within a causal framework. The beginnings of t...
Multiply realizable properties are those whose realizers are physically diverse. It is often argued ...
This paper addresses the recent resurgence of Nagel style reduction in the philosophical literature....
This paper addresses the recent resurgence of Nagel style reduction in the philosophical literature....
For nearly thirty years, there has been a consensus (at least in English-speaking countries) that re...
The goals of reduction have been numerous: revealing unity behind the appearance of plurality, showi...
This paper understands reductionism as a relation between explanations, not theories. It argues that...
Scientists have always attempted to explain the world in terms of a few unifying principles. In the ...
Reduction and reductionism have been central philosophical topics in analytic philosophy of science ...
Multiple Realizability (MR) must still be regarded as one of the principal arguments against type re...
This thesis argues that the core idea of intertheoretic reduction in science is still defendable. Th...
Anti-reductionists hold that special science explanations of some phenomena are objectively better t...
We reconsider the Nagelian theory of reduction and argue that, contrary to a widely held view, it is...
Multiple realisation prompts the question: how is it that multiple systems all exhibit the same phen...
In previous work, I described several examples combining reduction and emergence: where reduction is...
This paper examines the multiple realizability thesis within a causal framework. The beginnings of t...
Multiply realizable properties are those whose realizers are physically diverse. It is often argued ...
This paper addresses the recent resurgence of Nagel style reduction in the philosophical literature....
This paper addresses the recent resurgence of Nagel style reduction in the philosophical literature....
For nearly thirty years, there has been a consensus (at least in English-speaking countries) that re...
The goals of reduction have been numerous: revealing unity behind the appearance of plurality, showi...
This paper understands reductionism as a relation between explanations, not theories. It argues that...
Scientists have always attempted to explain the world in terms of a few unifying principles. In the ...
Reduction and reductionism have been central philosophical topics in analytic philosophy of science ...
Multiple Realizability (MR) must still be regarded as one of the principal arguments against type re...
This thesis argues that the core idea of intertheoretic reduction in science is still defendable. Th...
Anti-reductionists hold that special science explanations of some phenomena are objectively better t...
We reconsider the Nagelian theory of reduction and argue that, contrary to a widely held view, it is...
Multiple realisation prompts the question: how is it that multiple systems all exhibit the same phen...
In previous work, I described several examples combining reduction and emergence: where reduction is...
This paper examines the multiple realizability thesis within a causal framework. The beginnings of t...
Multiply realizable properties are those whose realizers are physically diverse. It is often argued ...