The Problem of Reductionism in Science: (Colloquium of the Swiss Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Zürich, May 18-19, 1990) - Softcover
Synopsis
Reductionism as Negation of the Scientific Spirit.- The Power and Limits of Reduction.- Theory of Antireductionist Arguments:The Bohr Case Study.- A Short History of Emergence and Reductionism.- The Technical Problem of "Full Abstractness" as a Model for an Issue in Reductionism.- A Neutral Reduction: Analytical Method and Positivism.- Reductionism and Reduction in Logic and in Mathematics.- Reductionism in Biology.- Reductionism: Palaver without Precedent.- Must a Science of Artificial Intelligence be Necessarily Reductionist?.- Can Psychological Software be Reduced to Physiological Hardware?.- On the Problem of Reducing Value-Components in Epistemology.- Index Of Names.
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