Reduction in Science

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• May We Identify Reduction and Explanation of Theories ?.
• Restriction and Embedding.
• Anomalies of Reduction.
• Ontological Reduction in the Natural Sciences.
• Explanation of Theories and the Problem of Progress in Physics.
• Reduction, Interpretation and Invariance.
• Reduction and Evolution — Arguments and Examples.
• Limiting Case Correspondence between Physical Theories.
• Contact Structures, Predifferentiability and Approximation.
• Tangent Embedding — A Special Kind of Approximate Reduction.
• A Logical Investigation of the Phlogiston Case.
• Utilistic Reduction in Sociology: The Case of Collective Goods.
• Intertheory Relations in Growth Economics: Sraffa and Wicksell.
• Possible Approaches to Reduction in Economic Theory.
• Why Language ?.
• On the Comparison of Classical and Special Relativistic Space-Time.
• Space-Time Geometries for One-Dimensional Space.
• Quantum Theory as a Factualization of Classical Theory.
• Classical and Non Classical Limiting Cases of Quantum Logic.
• Bell’s Inequalities and the Reduction of Statistical Theories.
• Name Index.