Hierarchy, causation and explanation: Ubiquity, locality and Pluralism

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Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 115-125

  Love, Alan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Causation; Explanation; Hierarchy; Pluralism; Reductionism; Top down

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860897260     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2011.0064     Document Type: Article

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