Concepts of Reduction in Physical Science

Marshall Spector

Concepts of Reduction in Physical Science

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Keywords	Physical sciences Philosophy Science Theory reduction
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A Structural Analysis of the Phlogiston Case.Maria Caamaño - 2009 - Erkenntnis 70 (3):331-364.

Towards a General Theory of Reduction. Part II: Identity in Reduction.C. A. Hooker - 1981 - Dialogue 20 (2):201-236.

Structuralist Reduction Concepts as Structure-Preserving Maps.Thomas Mormann - 1988 - Synthese 77 (2):215 - 250.

Mauricio Suárez (Ed.): Fictions in Science. Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization. [REVIEW]Jordi Cat - 2012 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 43 (1):187-194.

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