Levels of Explanation
The different sciences furnish us with a wide variety of explanations: some work at macroscopic scales, some work at microscopic scales, and some operate across different levels. How do these different explanatory levels relate to one another, and what is an explanatory level in the first place? Ove...
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| description | The different sciences furnish us with a wide variety of explanations: some work at macroscopic scales, some work at microscopic scales, and some operate across different levels. How do these different explanatory levels relate to one another, and what is an explanatory level in the first place? Over the last fifty years, more and more philosophers—both reductionists and anti-reductionists—have no longer subscribed to the idea that the best explanation resides at the fundamental physical level. New challenges arise from the success of scientific explanations employing multi-level models which mix levels of explanation, from distinctive differences between levels structures in biology, cognitive science and social science, from the apparently radical reimagining of the explanatory role of spacetime in our current best theories of fundamental physics, and from the enduring mystery of how higher-level explanations are possible in the first place. These questions naturally connect to classic philosophical ways of thinking about the relations between levels: reduction, emergence and fundamentality. This volume presents a snapshot of cutting-edge research on explanatory levels, from their conceptual foundations to the details of how they are used in scientific practice. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1519782025-07-21T15:44:42Z Levels of Explanation Robertson, Katie Wilson, Alastair explanation, levels, explanatory levels, levels of explanation, anti-reductionism, reductionism, causation, scientific models, interventionism, philosophy of explanation thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTJ Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PB Mathematics::PBB Philosophy of mathematics thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTJ Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PB Mathematics::PBB Philosophy of mathematics The different sciences furnish us with a wide variety of explanations: some work at macroscopic scales, some work at microscopic scales, and some operate across different levels. How do these different explanatory levels relate to one another, and what is an explanatory level in the first place? Over the last fifty years, more and more philosophers—both reductionists and anti-reductionists—have no longer subscribed to the idea that the best explanation resides at the fundamental physical level. New challenges arise from the success of scientific explanations employing multi-level models which mix levels of explanation, from distinctive differences between levels structures in biology, cognitive science and social science, from the apparently radical reimagining of the explanatory role of spacetime in our current best theories of fundamental physics, and from the enduring mystery of how higher-level explanations are possible in the first place. These questions naturally connect to classic philosophical ways of thinking about the relations between levels: reduction, emergence and fundamentality. This volume presents a snapshot of cutting-edge research on explanatory levels, from their conceptual foundations to the details of how they are used in scientific practice. 2025-02-17T03:49:25Z 2025-02-17T03:49:25Z 2025-02-10T10:45:51Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98309 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/151978 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98309/1/9780192862945.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780192862945.001.0001 10.1093/oso/9780192862945.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 5cb7974c-cdca-4b52-89bb-83b3315a87a3 0451801c-10ea-4012-af00-886bc64cc4d0 433 Oxford University of Birmingham 10.13039/501100000855 open access |
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