reductionism
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- Created on: 04-05-15 22:14
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- Reductionism
- Introduction
- aim to take a theory or phenomenon and make it reducible to some other theory
- Reductive process- the theory of heat=branch of Newtonian Mechanics physical optics=electromagnetic theory
- Everything therefore reduced to physics
- I will be analysing the claim that some sciences are more fundamental than others.
- Presenting critique by Feyerabend- concluding sciences cannot be reduced to physics
- Nagels argument
- reduction achieved when experimental laws of secondary science are shown to be logical consequences of the primary science
- Theory TR reduces to theory TB if TR is derivable from TB with the possible help of bridge laws
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