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Conservative Reductionism.
All properties that exist in the world are functional properties in the sense of causal properties. The authors base a conservative ontological reductionism on this claim and then develop functional reduction into a fully-fledged theory reduction through functional sub-types that are coextensive wit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Introduction; 1 The Dilemma of Functionalism; 2 The Metaphysics of Causal Structures; 3 The Theory of Evolution and Causal Structures in Biology; 4 Case Study: Classical and Molecular Genetics; 5 Conservative Functional Reduction; Conclusion; Summary of the Sub-chapters; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Subjects.