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Reductionism in Biology: Prospects and Problems

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PSA 1974

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Explications of what it means for one science to be reduced to another have been the focus of considerable interest in recent years, and when the reducing science is physics (and chemistry) and the reduced science is biology, additional concerns seem to arise. In this paper I wish to represent a model for theory reduction which has occupied my attention for some years now, and consider its applicability in the area of the biological sciences.1

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  1. University of Pittsburgh, USA

    Kenneth F. Schaffner

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  1. Boston University, USA

    R. S. Cohen

  2. University of Western Ontario, Canada

    C. A. Hooker

  3. University of Guelph, Canada

    A. C. Michalos

  4. University of Waterloo, Canada

    J. W. Van Evra

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Schaffner, K.F. (1976). Reductionism in Biology: Prospects and Problems. In: Cohen, R.S., Hooker, C.A., Michalos, A.C., Van Evra, J.W. (eds) PSA 1974. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1449-6_35

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