The devil in the details : asymptotic reasoning in explanation, reduction, and emergence /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Batterman, Robert W.
Corporate Author:	UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Series:	Oxford studies in philosophy of science.
Subjects:	Reasoning. Science > Methodology. Science > Philosophy. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Asymptotic Reasoning. 2.1. The Euler Strut. 2.2. Universality. 2.3. Intertheoretic Relations. 2.4. Emergence
3. Philosophical Theories of Explanation. 3.1. Different Why-Questions. 3.2. Hempelian Explanation and Its Successors
4. Asymptotic Explanation. 4.1. The Renormalization Group (RG). 4.2. The General Strategy. 4.3. "Intermediate Asymptotics" 4.4. Conclusion: The Role of Stability
5. Philosophical Models of Reduction. 5.1. Nagelian Reduction. 5.2. Multiple Realizability. 5.3. Kim's "Functional Model of Reduction" 5.4. A Metaphysical Mystery. 5.5. Multiple Realizability as Universality
6. Intertheoretic Relations
Optics. 6.1. "Reduction[subscript 2]" 6.2. Singular Limits.