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...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Part 1. The Concept of Reduction—An Explication
• Chapter 2. How to Approach Reduction: Explication and Meta-Science
• Chapter 3. The Puzzle of Reduction
• Chapter 4. Reductive Explanation and Mechanistic Explanation
• Chapter 5. Reductive Explanation
• Part 2. The Explication at Work
• Chapter 6. Reduction in the Philosophy of Mind
• Chapter 7. Conceptions of Reduction in the Philosophy of Science
• Chapter 8. Theory Reduction and Holism
• Chapter 9. Reduction Beyond the Reduction Debate
• Chapter 10. The Reductionist’s Commitment.