Taking Reductionism to the Limit: How to Rebut the Antireductionist Argument from Infinite Limits

Saatsi, Juha und Reutlinger, Alexander (2018): Taking Reductionism to the Limit: How to Rebut the Antireductionist Argument from Infinite Limits. In: Philosophy of Science, Bd. 85, Nr. 3: S. 455-482

Abstract

This article analyzes the antireductionist argument from renormalization 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.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP)
• ISSN: 0031-8248
• Sprache: Englisch