LEADER 03827nam 22005775 450 001 9910484757503321 005 20230810184951.0 010 $a3-319-25310-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-25310-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000539385 035 $a(EBL)4199809 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001597423 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16297327 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001597423 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14886264 035 $a(PQKB)11765492 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-25310-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4199809 035 $z(PPN)258863323 035 $a(PPN)190882964 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000539385 100 $a20151216d2015 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences /$fby Marie I. Kaiser 205 $a1st ed. 2015. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (284 p.) 225 1 $aHistory, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences,$x2211-1956 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-319-25308-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Meta-philosophical Preliminaries -- Chapter 3 Drawing Lessons from the Previous Debate -- Chapter 4 Two Perspectives on Explanatory Reduction -- Chapter 5 A Closer Look at Biological Explanations -- Chapter 6 The Ontic Account of Explanatory Reduction -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- References. 330 $aThis book develops a philosophical account that reveals the major characteristics that make an explanation in the life sciences reductive and distinguish them from non-reductive explanations. Understanding what reductive explanations are enables one to assess the conditions under which reductive explanations are adequate and thus enhances debates about explanatory reductionism. The account of reductive explanation presented in this book has three major characteristics. First, it emerges from a critical reconstruction of the explanatory practice of the life sciences itself. Second, the account is monistic since it specifies one set of criteria that apply to explanations in the life sciences in general. Finally, the account is ontic in that it traces the reductivity of an explanation back to certain relations that exist between objects in the world (such as part-whole relations and level relations), rather than to the logical relations between sentences. Beginning with a disclosure of the meta-philosophical assumptions that underlie the author?s analysis of reductive explanation, the book leads into the debate about reduction(ism) in the philosophy of biology and continues with a discussion on the two perspectives on explanatory reduction that have been proposed in the philosophy of biology so far. The author scrutinizes how the issue of reduction becomes entangled with explanation and analyzes two concepts, the concept of a biological part and the concept of a level of organization. The results of these five chapters constitute the ground on which the author bases her final chapter, developing her ontic account of reductive explanation. 410 0$aHistory, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences,$x2211-1956 606 $aScience$xPhilosophy 606 $aPhilosophy of Science 615 0$aScience$xPhilosophy. 615 14$aPhilosophy of Science. 676 $a574.01 700 $aKaiser$b Marie I$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0524878 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484757503321 996 $aReductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences$92847836 997 $aUNINA