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Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy
Taschenbuch von Carl Gillett
Sprache: Englisch

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Analyses the ongoing scientific debates surrounding reduction and emergence, arguing that these debates are empirically resolvable.
Analyses the ongoing scientific debates surrounding reduction and emergence, arguing that these debates are empirically resolvable.
Über den Autor
Carl Gillett is Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University. He is the editor of Physicalism and its Discontents (with Barry Loewer, Cambridge, 2001) and has published numerous articles in journals, including Analysis, The Journal of Philosophy, Mind and Language, Philosophical Psychology and Synthese.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; Introduction; Part I. Groundwork: 1. Scientific composition, the universe and everything: or, reductionism and emergentism in the sciences and philosophy; 2. A beginning framework for scientific composition; Part II. The Roots of Reduction: 3. How to be a scientific reductionist: defending 'nothing but' claims and an ultimate scientific image; 4. Understanding scientific reductionism: fundamentalist views of ontology, laws, theories, and methodology; Part III. The Fruits of Emergence: 5. The varieties of emergence: their natures, purposes and obligations; 6. A whole lot more from 'nothing but': conditioned aggregation, machresis and the possibility of strong emergence; 7. Understanding scientific emergentism: a mutualist nature and its interdependent levels, laws and sciences; Part IV. New Landscapes, New Horizons: 8. Our competing visions of nature and the sciences: illuminating the deeper debates and viable positions; 9. Making the issues concrete: the scientific hypotheses and their empirical differences; 10. The age of reduction versus the age of emergence: what has been successfully shown from the sciences (so far); Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 400
ISBN-13: 9781107428072
ISBN-10: 1107428076
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gillett, Carl
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Carl Gillett
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.07.2018
Gewicht: 0,577 kg
preigu-id: 114190841
Über den Autor
Carl Gillett is Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University. He is the editor of Physicalism and its Discontents (with Barry Loewer, Cambridge, 2001) and has published numerous articles in journals, including Analysis, The Journal of Philosophy, Mind and Language, Philosophical Psychology and Synthese.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; Introduction; Part I. Groundwork: 1. Scientific composition, the universe and everything: or, reductionism and emergentism in the sciences and philosophy; 2. A beginning framework for scientific composition; Part II. The Roots of Reduction: 3. How to be a scientific reductionist: defending 'nothing but' claims and an ultimate scientific image; 4. Understanding scientific reductionism: fundamentalist views of ontology, laws, theories, and methodology; Part III. The Fruits of Emergence: 5. The varieties of emergence: their natures, purposes and obligations; 6. A whole lot more from 'nothing but': conditioned aggregation, machresis and the possibility of strong emergence; 7. Understanding scientific emergentism: a mutualist nature and its interdependent levels, laws and sciences; Part IV. New Landscapes, New Horizons: 8. Our competing visions of nature and the sciences: illuminating the deeper debates and viable positions; 9. Making the issues concrete: the scientific hypotheses and their empirical differences; 10. The age of reduction versus the age of emergence: what has been successfully shown from the sciences (so far); Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 400
ISBN-13: 9781107428072
ISBN-10: 1107428076
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gillett, Carl
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Carl Gillett
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.07.2018
Gewicht: 0,577 kg
preigu-id: 114190841
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