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Individualism and the Unity of Science: Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and the Special Sciences

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In this original and important book, Harold Kincaid defends a view of the special sciences-all sciences outside physics-as autonomous and nonreducible. He argues that the biological and social sciences provide explanations that cannot be captured by explanations at the level of their constituent parts, and yet that this does not commit us to mysterious, nonphysical entitites like vital forces or group minds. A look at real scientific practice shows that the many different sciences can be unified in a way that leaves them ...

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Individualism and the Unity of Science: Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and the Special Sciences 1997, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD

ISBN-13: 9780847686636

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Individualism and the Unity of Science: Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and the Special Sciences 1997, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD

ISBN-13: 9780847686629

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