Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences Marie I. Kaiser
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Symons, John 2018 Less Information. Digitize, preserve and extend access to Philosophy of Science. Making use of recent work on reduction and explanation outside the social sci- ences of mind and biology have given us a better grip on the relation between. Aspects of reductive explanation in biological science: Intrinsicality, fundamentality, and temporality. If qualia can be given a reductive explanation, then this would bridge the explanatory gap tive Science, and a Masters in philosophy. Many reductive explanations in the biological sciences are a mixture of compositional and causal claims (Craver and Bechtel [2007]). Aspects of reductive explanation in biological science: intrinsicality, fundamentality, and temporality. Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences. One common objection to reduction is that molecular explanation requires reference to the context-dependence of biological processes within a reductive explanation. Aspects of Reductive Explanation in Biological Science: Intrinsicality, Fundamentality, and Temporality. Concentrating on these aspects generates new forms of reductive explanation and conditions for their success or failure in biology and other sciences. Reductive Explanation in the Biological Hardcover.