Serious metaphysics and the vindication of reductions |
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| Authors: | J L Dowell |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA |
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| Abstract: | What would be sufficient to show of some apparently higher-level property that it is ‘nothing over and above’ some complex configuration of more basic properties? This paper defends a new method for justifying reductions by demonstrating its comparative advantages over two methods recently defended in the literature. Unlike its rivals, what I’ll call “the semantic method” makes a reduction’s truth epistemically transparent without relying on conceptual analyses. |
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| Keywords: | Physicalism Dualism Reduction Conceptual analysis Inference to the best explanation |
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