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Psychoneural reduction : the new wave / John Bickle.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bickle, John, author.
- Series:
- A Bradford Book Series
- A Bradford book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology--Philosophy.
- Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 240 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [1998]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- John Bickle presents a new type of reductionism, one that is stronger than one-way dependency yet sidesteps the arguments that sank classical reductionism.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Why Reduction? And Why a New-Wave Version?
- 2 Exploiting Hooker's Insights
- 3 A Theory of Intertheoretic Reduction
- 4 The Irrelevance of Arguments against Classical Reduction
- 5 The "Put Up or Shut Up" Challenge
- 6 Revisionary Physicalism
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-26853-1
- OCLC:
- 1128391068
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