The Concept of Reduction

• Main Author: van Riel, Raphael (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Philosophical Studies Series ; 121
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Statistics.; Statistical Theory and Methods.; Philosophy, general.

This volume investigates the notion of reduction. Building on the idea that philosophers  employ the term ‘reduction’ to reconcile diversity and directionality with unity, without relying on elimination, the book offers a powerful explication of an “ontological”, notion of reduction the extension of...