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  title info:
    title: Levels of explanation
  name:
    name part: Robertson, Katie
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Wilson, Alastair
    name part: 1983-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction: Levels of Explanation -- Part I Foundations of Explanatory Levels -- 1 Levels of Description and Levels of Reality: A General Framework -- 2 Antireductionism Has Outgrown Levels -- 3 How the Reductionist Should Respond to the Multiscale Argument, and What This Tells Us About Levels -- Part II Levels of Explanation in Causal Modelling -- 4 Exclusion Excluded -- 5 Interventionist Causal Exclusion and the Challenge of Mixed Models -- 6 From Multilevel Explanation to Downward Causation -- Part III Levels of Explanation in Higher-Level Sciences -- 7 Explanatory Levels in Living Organisms -- 8 From Analogies to Levels of Abstraction in Cognitive Neuroscience -- 9 Messy but Real Levels in the Social Sciences -- PART IV Levels of Explanation in Physics -- 10 Levels Worth Having: A View from Physics -- 11 Levels of Fundamentality in the Metaphysics of Physics -- 12 No Grounds for Effective Theories -- Part V Levels of Explanation in Mathematics and Metaphysics -- 13 Explanation in Descriptive Set Theory -- 14 A Dormitive Virtue Puzzle -- 15 The Explanatory Role Argument and the Metaphysics of Deterministic Chance -- Part VI How Are Explanatory Levels Possible? -- 16 Why Are There High-Level Regularities? -- 17 Why High-Level Explanations Exist -- 18 A Democracy of Laws -- End Matter
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: edited by Katie Robertson and Alastair Wilson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Methodology
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Explanation
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Sciences
    topic: Méthodologie
  subject:
    topic: Explication
  subject:
    topic: History & Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: MATHEMATICS
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Science: general issues
  subject:
    topic: Science
  classification: Q175 .L4 2024
  classification: 501
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    title info:
      title: Levels of explanation
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024
    identifier: (OCoLC)1434096364
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  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 240920
    record change date: 20260319205328.2
    record identifier: in00005727606
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng