Functionalism, Reductionism, and Levels of Reality.
I consider a problem for functional reductionism based on the following tension. Say that b is functionally reduced to a. On one hand, a and b turn out to be identical, and identity is a symmetric relation. On the other hand, functional reductionism implies that a and b are asymmetrically related: i...
| Published in: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 90; no. 4; pp. 922 - 937 |
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Cambridge University Press
Oct2023
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