Reduction in Science [electronic resource] : Structure, Examples, Philosophical Problems / edited by W. Balzer, D. Pearce, Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9789400964549
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/6616
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 1984.
Yayın Bilgisi
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1984.
Fiziksel Niteleme
VII, 446 p. online resource.
Dizi
Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 2542-8292 ; 175
İçindekiler Notu
May We Identify Reduction and Explanation of Theories ? -- Restriction and Embedding -- Anomalies of Reduction -- Ontological Reduction in the Natural Sciences -- Explanation of Theories and the Problem of Progress in Physics -- Reduction, Interpretation and Invariance -- Reduction and Evolution — Arguments and Examples -- Limiting Case Correspondence between Physical Theories -- Contact Structures, Predifferentiability and Approximation -- Tangent Embedding — A Special Kind of Approximate Reduction -- A Logical Investigation of the Phlogiston Case -- Utilistic Reduction in Sociology: The Case of Collective Goods -- Intertheory Relations in Growth Economics: Sraffa and Wicksell -- Possible Approaches to Reduction in Economic Theory -- Why Language ? -- On the Comparison of Classical and Special Relativistic Space-Time -- Space-Time Geometries for One-Dimensional Space -- Quantum Theory as a Factualization of Classical Theory -- Classical and Non Classical Limiting Cases of Quantum Logic -- Bell’s Inequalities and the Reduction of Statistical Theories -- Name Index.
Konu
Science __ Philosophy.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Philosophy of Science.
Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
Diğer Yazarlar
Balzer, W.
Pearce, D.
Schmidt, Heinz-Jürgen.
Kurum Adı
SpringerLink (Online service)
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