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...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 203; no. 2; pp. 1 - 28
Autor principal: Lorenzetti, Lorenzo
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Feb2024
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