Taking Reductionism to the Limit: How to Rebut the Antireductionist Argument from Infinite Limits

Saatsi, J orcid.org/0000-0002-8440-8761 and Reutlinger, A (2018) Taking Reductionism to the Limit: How to Rebut the Antireductionist Argument from Infinite Limits. Philosophy of Science, 85 (3). pp. 455-482. ISSN 0031-8248

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Keywords: reductionism; reduction; emergence; renormalization group explanation; universality; non-causal explanation; counterfactual account of explanation
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  • Accepted: 6 October 2017
  • Published (online): 17 October 2017
  • Published: July 2018
Institution: The University of Leeds
Academic Units: The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds)
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John Templeton Foundation (US)
Durham Emergence Project
Depositing User: Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited: 09 Oct 2017 14:22
Last Modified: 19 Apr 2025 03:42
Published Version: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086...
Status: Published
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Identification Number: 10.1086/697735
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