Being reduced
Subtitle: new essays on reduction, explanation, and causation
By: edited by Jakob Hohwy, Jesper Kallestrup.
Contributors: Hohwy, Jakob.; Kallestrup, Jesper.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780199211531
Subjects: Philosophy of mind; Brain
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Reduction and embodied cognition : perspectives from medicine and psychiatry / Valerie Gray Hardcastle and Rosalyn W. Stewart; title: Real reduction in real neuroscience : metascience, not philosophy of science (and certainly not metaphysics!) / John Bickle; title: Reduction in real life / Peter Godfrey-Smith; title: Group agency and supervenience / Christian List and Philip Pettit; title: Reduction and reductive explanation : is one possible without the other? / Jaegwon Kim; title: CP laws, reduction, and explanatory pluralism / Peter Lipton; title: Must a physicalist be a microphysicalist? / David Papineau; title: Why there is anything except physics? / Barry Loewer; title: Multiple realization : keeping it real / Louise M. Antony; title: Causation and determinable properties : on the efficacy of colour, shape, and size / Tim Crane; title: The exclusion problem, the determination relation, and contrastive causation / Peter Menzies; title: Mental causation and neural mechanisms / James Woodward; title: Distinctions in distinction / Daniel Stoljar; title: Exclusion again / Karen Bennett.