Who’s Afraid of Nagelian Reduction?

By Foad Dizadji-Bahmani, Roman Frigg, S. Hartmann. 2010

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We reconsider the Nagelian theory of reduction and argue that, contrary to a widely held view, it is the right analysis of intertheoretic reduction. The alleged difficulties of the theory either vanish upon closer inspection or turn out to be substantive philosophical questions rather than knock-down arguments.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ee3a834652d2753076a0098ded455212b9ec3c66

Citations in the corpus

• Emergence, Reduction and Supervenience: A Varied Landscape (2011, unknown): “[19, 20, 45, 51, 58].”