Reduction and Mechanism

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Alex Rosenberg

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Series:

Elements in the Philosophy of Biology

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Reductionism is a widely endorsed methodology among biologists, a metaphysical theory advanced to vindicate the biologist's methodology, and an epistemic thesis those opposed to reductionism have been eager to refute. While the methodology has gone from strength to strength in its history of achievements, the metaphysical thesis grounding it remained controversial despite its significant changes over the last 75 years of the philosophy of science. Meanwhile, antireductionism about biology, and especially Darwinian natural selection, became orthodoxy in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology. This Element expounds the debate about reductionism in biology, from the work of the post-positivists to the end of the century debates about supervenience, multiple realizability, and explanatory exclusion. It shows how the more widely accepted 21st century doctrine of 'mechanism' - reductionism with a human face - inherits both the strengths and the challenges of the view it has largely supplanted.

Release date NZ

June 4th, 2020

Author

Alex Rosenberg

Series

Elements in the Philosophy of Biology

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Audience

Professional & Vocational

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Worked examples or Exercises

Dimensions

153x230x5

ISBN-13

9781108742313

Product ID

33454566

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