Philosophy of Science (3):455-482 (2017)
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This paper analyses the anti-reductionist argument from renormalisation group explanations of universality, and shows how it can be rebutted if one assumes that the explanation in question is captured by the counterfactual dependence account of explanation.
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Keywords | Reductionism renormalisation group explanation |
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Reprint years | 2018 |
DOI | 10.1086/697735 |
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