Towards a General Theory of Reduction. Part I
Historical and Scientific Setting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9686736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C A Hooker (University of Newcastle Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 38-59 |
| Publication date | 1981-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217300023088 |
| OpenAlex | W2169102987 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
| References cited | 23 |
The Three Papers comprising this series, together with my earlier [34] also published in this journal, constitute an attempt to set out the major issues in the theoretical domain of reduction and to develop (tentatively) a general theory of theory reduction. The fourth paper, [34], though published separately from this trio, is integral to the presentation and should be read in conjunction with these papers. Even so, the presentation is limited in scope – roughly, to intertheoretic reduction among empirical theories – and informal in presentation – not least because a satisfying formal account of theories has yet to be offered. And despite the length, the treatment is still condensed; often corroborating and/or intuitively helpful detail has had to be consigned to footnotes or omitted. I approach the problem from within my own naturalistic realist philosophy of science and formal analysis of abstract hierarchy in theory. The sources for the former are [25], [29], [31], and [32] and those for the latter essentially [27] and [30]. Hierarchical notions played a significant role in the already published [34]
Epistemology · Hierarchy · Mathematical economics · Presentation (obstetrics) · Reduction (mathematics) · Scope (computer science) · Set (abstract data type) · Computer Science · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Science and Climate Studies
Emergence and Social Causation
Intertheory Relations in Cognitive Science
Physicalism, realism and education
Philosophy of Experimental Biology
Does Functional Reduction Need Bridge Laws? A Response to Marras
A new definition of reduction between two scientific theories
Beyond reduction
Process vs Structure and Levels of Analysis in Psychology
Reductionism Revisited
On references to the transcendent in the scientific study of religion
Post-Structuralist Angst—Critical Notice
Reductionisms and physicalisms
Reduction revisited
The Individualism-Holism Debate on Intertheoretic Reduction and the Argument from Multiple Realization
Reduction in Sociology
Reductionism and its heuristics
Belief attribution in science
Idealisation, naturalism, and rationality
Emergence and reduction
Object Exploration and a Problem with Reductionism
Outline of a theory of scientific understanding
Explanations in cognitive science
Chemistry as the Science of the Transformation of Substances
Reduction and emergence in the physical sciences
Has the last decade of challenges to the multiple realization argument provided aid and comfort to psychoneural reductionists
Models of reduction and categories of reductionism
Non-basic time and reductive strategies
On the Role of Bridge Laws in Intertheoretic Relations
Mental Anomaly and the New Mind-Brain Reductionism
Nagelian Reduction beyond the Nagel Model
Cognitive Scientific Realism
Rethinking the philosophical and theoretical foundations of organizational neuroscience
Towards a General Theory of Reduction. Part III
The Direction of Time
Evaluating New Wave Reductionism
Identity, Asymmetry, and the Relevance of Meanings for Models of Reduction
Consciousness and Reduction
Multiple Realizability
What computers still can't do
The Logical Structure of Mathematical Physics
The Structure and Dynamics of Theories
The Structure of Science
Models and reality
Two Concepts of Intertheoretic Reduction
Aspects of Scientific Explanation
Political Philosophy and the Idea of a Social Science
The Highly Productive Thermothelomyces heterothallica C1 Expression System as a Host for Rapid Development of Influenza Vaccines
Consciousness and the Brain
Symmetry in intertheory relations
Russell's maxim and reduction as replacement
Philosophy and meta-philosophy of science
Approaches to Reduction
The Replacement of Scientific Theories
A Partial Vindication of Ergodic Theory
Statistical Explanation and Ergodic Theory
| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,84 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2021 (41) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |