Saatsi, Juha and Reutlinger, Alexander (2017) Taking Reductionism to the Limit: How to Rebut the Anti-Reductionist Argument from Infinite Limits. [Preprint]

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This paper analyses the anti-reductionist argument from renormalisation group explanations of universality, and shows how it can be rebutted if one assumes that the explanation in question is captured by the counterfactual dependence account of explanation.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Saatsi, Juha J.T.Saatsi@leeds.ac.uk Reutlinger, Alexander Alexander.Reutlinger@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Additional Information:	forthcoming in Philosophy of Science
Keywords:	reductionism, reduction, emergence, renormalization group explanation, universality, non-causal explanation, counterfactual account of explanation
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Reductionism/Holism Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics
Depositing User:	Alexander Reutlinger
Date Deposited:	17 Oct 2017 14:41
Last Modified:	17 Oct 2017 14:41
Item ID:	14029
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Reductionism/Holism Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics
Date:	October 2017
URI:	https://philsci-archive-dev.library.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14029

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