Reduction in Science Structure, Examples, Philosophical Problems
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1984, 1984
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1984 |
| Series: | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- May We Identify Reduction and Explanation of Theories ?
- Restriction and Embedding
- Anomalies of Reduction
- Ontological Reduction in the Natural Sciences
- Explanation of Theories and the Problem of Progress in Physics
- Reduction, Interpretation and Invariance
- Reduction and Evolution — Arguments and Examples
- Limiting Case Correspondence between Physical Theories
- Contact Structures, Predifferentiability and Approximation
- Tangent Embedding — A Special Kind of Approximate Reduction
- A Logical Investigation of the Phlogiston Case
- Utilistic Reduction in Sociology: The Case of Collective Goods
- Intertheory Relations in Growth Economics: Sraffa and Wicksell
- Possible Approaches to Reduction in Economic Theory
- Why Language ?
- On the Comparison of Classical and Special Relativistic Space-Time
- Space-Time Geometries for One-Dimensional Space
- Quantum Theory as a Factualization of Classical Theory
- Classical and Non Classical Limiting Cases of Quantum Logic
- Bell’s Inequalities and the Reduction of Statistical Theories
- Name Index