Two Forms of Functional Reductionism in Physics.
Functional reductionism characterises inter-theoretic reduction as the recovery of the upper-level behaviour described by the reduced theory in terms of the lower-level reducing theory. For instance, finding a statistical mechanical realiser that plays the functional role of thermodynamic entropy al...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 203; no. 2; pp. 1 - 28 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2024
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