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...

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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 90; no. 4; pp. 922 - 937
Autor principal: Lorenzetti, Lorenzo
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Cambridge University Press Oct2023
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