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Reduction in Science :

(Number (ISBN

9400964544

(Number (ISBN

9789400964549

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b546090

Title Proper

Reduction in Science :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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Structure, Examples, Philosophical Problems

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Wolfgang Balzer, David A. Pearce, Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1984

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(453 pages)

Series Title

Synthese library, 175.

Text of Note

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.

Text of Note

The papers in this volume were presented at the colloquium "Reduktion in der Wissenschaft: Struktur, Beispiele, philos ophische PrObleme", held in Bielefeld, West Germany, July 18- 21, 1983. Altogether eighteen talks were delivered at the symposium, and all appear here with the exception of Professor Ehlers' address. In addition, we are pleased to be able to include three papers by invited participants (Kamiah, Ludwig, Scheibe) who were unable to attend the meeting. The meeting itself brought together a sizeable group of logicians, philosophers and working scientists to discuss and debate the theme of reduction, one that occupies a central place in contemporary philosophy of science. The participants and contributors succeeded in opening up new directions in reduction studies and presenting fresh case studies of re duction from many different areas of scientific practice. Their efforts will greatly enhance our understanding of reduction and, consequently, our grasp of the complex process of scien tific change and the unity and growth of scientific knowledge.

Philosophy (General)

Science -- Philosophy.

Social sciences -- Philosophy.

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edited by Wolfgang Balzer, David A. Pearce, Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt.

David A Pearce

Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt

Wolfgang Balzer

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[Book]

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