Explicating pluralism: Where the mind to molecule pathway gets off the track-Reply to Bickle

Synthese

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 435-443

  De Jong, Huib Looren ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Explanatory pluralism; Genetics; Heuristics; Interlevel connections; Levels of explanation; Mind brain links; Neuroscience; Reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748305969     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-006-9016-1     Document Type: Review

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