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Psychoneural reduction : the new wave / John Bickle.
Title:
Psychoneural reduction : the new wave / John Bickle.
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Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1998]
Publication Date:
1998
ISBN:
9780262024327

9780262512886
General Note:
"A Bradford book."
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-235) and index.
Contents:
Why Reduction? And Why a New-Wave Version? Reductionism Revived as a Program. A Puzzle about Nonreductive Physicalism. The Mind-Body Problem as a "Levels" Problem -- Exploiting Hooker's Insights. Clifford Hooker's General Theory of Reduction. Applying Hooker's Theory: The Reduction of the Simple Thermodynamics of Gases to Kinetic Theory and Statistical Mechanics. The Intertheoretic-Reduction Reformulation of the Mind-Body Problem. The "Place for Everything" Argument -- A Theory of Intertheoretic Reduction. The Structuralist Model of Theories. The Reduction Relation [rho]. The "Too Weak to Be Adequate" Challenge. Blurs on [rho]: Significantly Corrective Reductions.
Content Type:
text
Carrier Type:
volume
Language:
English
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