Overview
- Novel and unique analysis of concepts that are essential to many philosophical debates (such as the concept of reductive explanation, reductionism, and level)
- Argues that reductive explanations in life science possess three features including displaying a lower-level character, and a simplification of the system’s environment
- Scrutinizes the question on how entangled the issue of reduction becomes with the issue of explanation
Part of the book series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences (HPTL)
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“Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences offers a novel philosophical perspective on explanatory reduction by fruitfully distinguishing different important characteristics explanations may have. The account also excels by offering metaphilosophical reflections on normativity in philosophy of science.” (Ingo Brigandt, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, ndpr.nd.edu, August, 2016)
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Book Title: Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences
Authors: Marie I. Kaiser
Series Title: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25310-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25308-4Published: 23 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79766-3Published: 21 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25310-7Published: 16 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2211-1948
Series E-ISSN: 2211-1956
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 277
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy of Science