Laws, causation and dynamics at different levels

Interface Focus

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 101-114

  Butterfield, Jeremy ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causation; Coarse graining; Dynamics; Emergence; Reduction; Supervenience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860910544     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2011.0052     Document Type: Article

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