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Type: | Conference paper |
Title: | Levels and explanations |
Author: | Opie, J. |
Citation: | Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (ASCS09), held in Sydney New South Wales Sept 30- Oct 2 2009, 2010 / W. Christensen, E. Schier and J. Sutton (eds.): pp.270-276 |
Publisher: | Australian Society for Cognitive Science |
Publisher Place: | Sydney |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
ISBN: | 9780646529189 |
Conference Name: | Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (9th : 2009 : Sydney, Australia) |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jon Opie |
Abstract: | It is a mainstay of the philosophy of science that reduction is a relationship between theories pitched at different levels of nature. But the relevant sense of “level” is notoriously difficult to pin down. A promising recent analysis links the notion of level to the compositional relations associated with mechanistic explanation. Such relations do not order objects by scale or physical type; one and the same kind of entity can occur at several levels in a single mechanism. I will sketch this approach to levels and consider some of its implications for our understanding of the relationship between cognitive psychology and neuroscience. |
Keywords: | reduction explanation levels of nature mechanism mechanistic explanation |
Rights: | Copyright 2009 by the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science |
DOI: | 10.5096/ascs200941 |
Published version: | http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/news/conferences/2009/ASCS2009/ |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 5 Philosophy publications |
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