Reconsidering the role of bridge laws in inter-theoretical reductions

Erkenntnis

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 303-322

  Fazekas, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350289437     PISSN: 01650106     EISSN: 15728420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10670-009-9181-y     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Bickle, J. (1998). Psychoneural reduction: The new wave. Cambridge: MIT Press.
2. Chalmers, D. J. (1996). The conscious mind. New York: Oxford University Press.
3. Davidson, D. (1970). Mental events. In L. Foster & J. W. Swanson (Eds.), Experience and theory. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
4. Fodor, J. A. (1974). Special sciences, or the disunity of science as a working hypothesis. Synthese,28, 97-115. doi:10.1007/BF00485230.
5. Hempel, C. G. (1965). Aspects of scientific explanation. New York: Free Press.
6. Hempel, C. G., & Oppenheim, P. (1948). Studies in the logic of explanation. Philosophy of Science, 15, 135-175. (Reprinted In: C. G. Hempel (1965): 245-295.).
7. Hooker, C. A. (1981). Towards a general theory of reduction. Part I: Historical and scientific setting. Part II: Identity in reduction. Part III: Cross-categorial reduction. Dialogue, 20, 38-57, 201-236, 496-529.
8. Kim, J. (1998). Mind in a physical world. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
9. Kim, J. (1999). Making sense of emergence. Philosophical Studies,95, 3-36. doi:10.1023/A:1004563122154.
10. Kim, J. (2005). Physicalism, or something near enough. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
11. Klein, C. (2008). Reduction without reductionism: A defence of Nagel on connectability. The Philosophical Quarterly, 59, 39-53. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9213.2008.560.x.
12. Levine, J. (1993). On leaving out what it is like. In M. Davies & G. W. Humphreys (Eds.), Consciousness. Oxford: Blackwell.
13. Marras, A. (2002). Kim on reduction. Erkenntnis,57, 231-257. doi:10.1023/A:1020932406567.
14. Nagel, E. (1961). The structure of science. New York: Harcourt, Brace, & World.
15. Putnam, H. (1967). Psychological predicates. In: W. Capitan & D. Merrill (Eds.), Art, mind, and religion (pp. 37-48). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. (Reprinted as 'The nature of mental states'. In: N. Block (Ed.), Readings in philosophy of psychology (vol. 1. pp. 223-231). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980).
16. Schaffner, K. (1967). Approaches to reduction. Philosophy of Science,34, 137-147. doi:10.1086/288137.
17. Schaffner, K. (1969). The Watson-Crick model and reductionism. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science,20, 325-348. doi:10.1093/bjps/20.4.325.
18. van Gulick, R. (1992). Nonreductive materialism and the nature of intertheoretic constraint. In A. Beckermann, H. Flohr, & J. Kim (Eds.), Emergence or reduction?: Essays on the prospects of nonreductive materialism (pp. 157-178). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
19. van Gulick, R. (2001). Reduction, Emergence and Other Recent Options of the Mind/Body Problem. (Paper presented at ASSC 5, Duke University, Durham).