| 书目名称 | Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences |
| 编辑 | Marie I. Kaiser |
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| 概述 | Novel and unique analysis of concepts that are essential to many philosophical debates (such as the concept of reductive explanation, reductionism, and level).Argues that reductive explanations in lif |
| 丛书名称 | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
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| 描述 | This book develops a philosophical account that reveals the major characteristics that make an explanation in the life sciences reductive and distinguish them from non-reductive explanations. Understanding what reductive explanations are enables one to assess the conditions under which reductive explanations are adequate and thus enhances debates about explanatory reductionism. The account of reductive explanation presented in this book has three major characteristics. First, it emerges from a critical reconstruction of the explanatory practice of the life sciences itself. Second, the account is monistic since it specifies one set of criteria that apply to explanations in the life sciences in general. Finally, the account is ontic in that it traces the reductivity of an explanation back to certain relations that exist between objects in the world (such as part-whole relations and level relations), rather than to the logical relations between sentences. Beginning with a disclosure of the meta-philosophical assumptions that underlie the author’s analysis of reductive explanation, the book leads into the debate about reduction(ism) in the philosophy of biology and continues with a dis |
| 出版日期 | Book 2015 |
| 关键词 | explanation in biology; levels of organization; ontic account; part-whole relations; reductionism; reduct |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25310-7 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-79766-3 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-25310-7Series ISSN 2211-1948 Series E-ISSN 2211-1956 |
| issn_series | 2211-1948 |
| copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 |
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