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Without Hierarchies
Mariam Thalos
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Description for Without Hierarchies
Num Pages: 304 pages, 19 illus. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPM; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 570.
A venerable tradition in the metaphysics of science commends ontological reduction: the practice of analysis of theoretical entities into further and further proper parts, with the understanding that the original entity is nothing but the sum of these. This tradition implicitly subscribes to the principle that all the real action of the universe (also referred to as its "causation") happens at the smallest scales-at the scale of microphysics. A vast majority of metaphysicians and philosophers of science, covering a wide swath of the spectrum from reductionists to emergentists, defend this principle. It provides one pillar of the most prominent theory ... Read more
A venerable tradition in the metaphysics of science commends ontological reduction: the practice of analysis of theoretical entities into further and further proper parts, with the understanding that the original entity is nothing but the sum of these. This tradition implicitly subscribes to the principle that all the real action of the universe (also referred to as its "causation") happens at the smallest scales-at the scale of microphysics. A vast majority of metaphysicians and philosophers of science, covering a wide swath of the spectrum from reductionists to emergentists, defend this principle. It provides one pillar of the most prominent theory ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199917648
SKU
V9780199917648
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About Mariam Thalos
Mariam Thalos is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on foundational questions in the sciences, as well as on the relations amongst the sciences. Her work has been supported by the NSF, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Australian National University, the Tanner Humanities Center, and the University ... Read more
Reviews for Without Hierarchies
This is a wonderful strange book. Hugely ambitiousThere are things to enjoy and things to be gained from this work, thanks mostly to its refreshing and inventive use of examples.
Analysis
This book is sure to attract considerable scholarly attention, but it is also accessible to any reader who has some familiarity with the debates to which Thalos ... Read more
Analysis
This book is sure to attract considerable scholarly attention, but it is also accessible to any reader who has some familiarity with the debates to which Thalos ... Read more