Being Reduced: New Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and Causation

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New York: Oxford University Press (2008)
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There are few more unsettling philosophical questions than this: What happens in attempts to reduce some properties to some other more fundamental properties?

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Multiple realization : keeping it real.Louise M. Antony
Exclusion again.Karen Bennett
Real reduction in real neuroscience : metascience, not philosophy of science (and certainly not metaphysics!).John Bickle
Causation and Determinable Properties : On the Efficacy of Colour, Shape, and Size.Tim Crane
Reduction in real life.Peter Godfrey-Smith
Reduction and embodied cognition : perspectives from medicine and psychiatry.Valerie Gray Hardcastle & Rosalyn W. Stewart
Reduction and reductive explanation : is one possible without the other?Jaegwon Kim
CP laws, reduction, and explanatory pluralism.Peter Lipton
Group agency and supervenience.Christian List & Philip Pettit
Why is there anything except physics?Barry Loewer
Why There Is Anything except Physics.Barry Loewer
The exclusion problem, the determination relation, and contrastive causation.Peter Menzies
Must a physicalist be a microphysicalist?David Papineau
Group agency and supervenience.Philip Pettit
Group Agency and Supervenience.Christian List & Pettit & Philip
Distinctions in distinction.Daniel Stoljar
Distinctions in Distinction.Daniel Stoljar
Mental causation and neural mechanisms.James Woodward

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Jakob Hohwy
Monash University
Jesper Kallestrup
University of Aberdeen

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Mental Causation.David Robb & John Heil - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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