Levels of explanation:
The different sciences furnish us with a wide variety of explanations: some work at macroscopic scales, some at microscopic scales, and some operate across different levels. How do these different explanations fit together? This book looks at levels of explanations across different sciences, as well...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The different sciences furnish us with a wide variety of explanations: some work at macroscopic scales, some at microscopic scales, and some operate across different levels. How do these different explanations fit together? This book looks at levels of explanations across different sciences, as well as at levels of explanation in philosophy itself. Cover -- Levels of Explanation -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Levels of Explanation -- Part I: Foundations of Explanatory Levels -- 1 Levels of Description and Levels of Reality: A General Framework -- 2 Antireductionism Has Outgrown Levels -- 3 How the Reductionist Should Respond to the Multiscale Argument, and What This Tells Us About Levels -- Part II: Levels of Explanation in Causal Modelling -- 4 Exclusion Excluded -- 5 Interventionist Causal Exclusion and the Challenge of Mixed Models -- 6 From Multilevel Explanation to Downward Causation -- Part III: Levels of Explanation in Higher-Level Sciences -- 7 Explanatory Levels in Living Organisms -- 8 From Analogies to Levels of Abstraction in Cognitive Neuroscience -- 9 Messy but Real Levels in the Social Sciences -- Part IV: Levels of Explanation in Physics -- 10 Levels Worth Having: A View from Physics -- 11 Levels of Fundamentality in the Metaphysics of Physics -- 12 No Grounds for Effective Theories -- Part V: Levels of Explanation in Mathematics and Metaphysics -- 13 Explanation in Descriptive Set Theory -- 14 A Dormitive Virtue Puzzle -- 15 The Explanatory Role Argument and the Metaphysics of Deterministic Chance -- Part VI: How are Explanatory Levels Possible? -- 16 Why Are There High-Level Regularities? -- 17 Why High-Level Explanations Exist -- 18 A Democracy of Laws -- Index. |
| Beschreibung: | 433 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780192862945 |
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| spelling | Levels of explanation 1st ed. Oxford Oxford University Press, Incorporated 2025 433 Seiten txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The different sciences furnish us with a wide variety of explanations: some work at macroscopic scales, some at microscopic scales, and some operate across different levels. How do these different explanations fit together? This book looks at levels of explanations across different sciences, as well as at levels of explanation in philosophy itself. Cover -- Levels of Explanation -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Levels of Explanation -- Part I: Foundations of Explanatory Levels -- 1 Levels of Description and Levels of Reality: A General Framework -- 2 Antireductionism Has Outgrown Levels -- 3 How the Reductionist Should Respond to the Multiscale Argument, and What This Tells Us About Levels -- Part II: Levels of Explanation in Causal Modelling -- 4 Exclusion Excluded -- 5 Interventionist Causal Exclusion and the Challenge of Mixed Models -- 6 From Multilevel Explanation to Downward Causation -- Part III: Levels of Explanation in Higher-Level Sciences -- 7 Explanatory Levels in Living Organisms -- 8 From Analogies to Levels of Abstraction in Cognitive Neuroscience -- 9 Messy but Real Levels in the Social Sciences -- Part IV: Levels of Explanation in Physics -- 10 Levels Worth Having: A View from Physics -- 11 Levels of Fundamentality in the Metaphysics of Physics -- 12 No Grounds for Effective Theories -- Part V: Levels of Explanation in Mathematics and Metaphysics -- 13 Explanation in Descriptive Set Theory -- 14 A Dormitive Virtue Puzzle -- 15 The Explanatory Role Argument and the Metaphysics of Deterministic Chance -- Part VI: How are Explanatory Levels Possible? -- 16 Why Are There High-Level Regularities? -- 17 Why High-Level Explanations Exist -- 18 A Democracy of Laws -- Index. Robertson, Katie Sonstige oth Wilson, Alastair ctb Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe 978-0-19-267749-5 |
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