Conservative Reductionism

by Michael Esfeld and Christian Sachse

Book Overview

Conservative Reductionism sets out a new theory of the relationship between physics and the special sciences within the framework of functionalism. It argues that it is wrong-headed to conceive an opposition between functional and physical properties (or functional and physical descriptions, respectively) and to build an anti-reductionist argument on multiple realization. By contrast, (a) all properties that there are in the world, including the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815371896
• ISBN13: 9780815371892
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"