Conceptual analysis and reductive explanation

Philosophical Review 110 (3):315-61 (2001)
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Is conceptual analysis required for reductive explanation? If there is no a priori entailment from microphysical truths to phenomenal truths, does reductive explanation of the phenomenal fail? We say yes . Ned Block and Robert Stalnaker say no

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