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Intertheoretic reduction
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Reduction
In philosophy of science, intertheoretic reduction occurs when a reducing theory makes predictions that perfectly or almost perfectly match the…
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2018
2018
Emergence, Functionalism and Pragmatic Reality in Wallacian quantum mechanics
R. A. Mulder
2018
Corpus ID: 186947850
David Wallace's The Emergent Multiverse is the most recent complete presentation of a version of Everett's theory of quantum…
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2014
2014
Similarity and Spacetime: Studies in Intertheoretic Reduction and Physical Significance
Samuel C. Fletcher
2014
Corpus ID: 125369372
Author(s): Fletcher, Samuel Craig | Advisor(s): Weatherall, James O | Abstract: This dissertation explores in particular a few…
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2014
2014
A Method for Constructing an Intertheoretic Reduction between the Special Sciences
Chris Clark
2014
Corpus ID: 18334126
With the proliferation of the special sciences, sciences which are not fundamental physics, the scientific community has…
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2013
2013
Why are good theories good? reflections on epistemic values, confirmation, and formal epistemology
J. Zamora-Bonilla
Synthese
2013
Corpus ID: 2927298
Franz Huber’s (2008a) attempt to unify inductivist and hypothetico-deductivist intuitions on confirmation by means of a single…
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2012
2012
Is It All Biological ? 1 Is It All Really Biological ?
R. M. Bergner
2012
Corpus ID: 157065142
2012
2012
Is "Cognitive Neuroscience" an Oxymoron?
D. Lloyd
2012
Corpus ID: 145284763
C ould " cognitive neuroscience " be an oxymoron? " Cognitive " and " neurosci-ence " cohere only to the extent that the entities…
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2008
2008
From Water to H 2 O – What Reduction is About
R. Riel
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R. vanRiel
2008
Corpus ID: 37774689
In what follows I shall argue that an important notion of reduction depends on a four-place relation holding between expressions…
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2008
2008
A structuralist account of the theory-change from Newtonian to Einsteinian physics.
Kyoung-eun Yang
2008
Corpus ID: 117977242
Some philosophers - such as Popper and Kuhn - have cited the theory-shift from Newtonian to Einsteinian physics as one of the…
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2008
2008
Intertheoretic Reduction and Eliminativism
Jeyoun Park
2008
Corpus ID: 171834378
Review
2002
Review
2002
THEMES IN MY PHILOSOPHICAL WORK
T. Horgan
2002
Corpus ID: 16777137
This paper is an overview of my philosophical work. It follows closely the structure of the handout I used as the basis for a…
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