The Problem of Reductionism in Science (Colloquium of the Swiss Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Zürich, May 18–19, 1990)
The topic to which this book is devoted is reductionism, and not reduction. The difference in the adoption of these two denominations is not, contrary to what might appear at first sight, just a matter of preference between a more abstract (reductionism) or a more concrete (reduction) terminology fo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1991, 1991
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1991 |
| Series: | Episteme, A Series in the Foundational, Methodological, Philosophical, Psychological, Sociological, and Political Aspects of the Sciences, Pure and Applied
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Reductionism as Negation of the Scientific Spirit
- The Power and Limits of Reduction
- Theory of Antireductionist Arguments:The Bohr Case Study
- A Short History of Emergence and Reductionism
- The Technical Problem of “Full Abstractness” as a Model for an Issue in Reductionism
- A Neutral Reduction: Analytical Method and Positivism
- Reductionism and Reduction in Logic and in Mathematics
- Reductionism in Biology
- Reductionism: Palaver without Precedent
- Must a Science of Artificial Intelligence be Necessarily Reductionist?
- Can Psychological Software be Reduced to Physiological Hardware?
- On the Problem of Reducing Value-Components in Epistemology
- Index Of Names