Putnam on reductionism

Cognition 3 (3):289-293 (1974)
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Putnam argues that reductionism, “the doctrine that the laws of such ‘higher level’ sciences as psychology and sociology are reducible to the laws of lower-level sciences - biology, chemistry, ultimately to the laws of elementary particle physics”, is wrong. In this note, I take issue with some of Putnam’s arguments.

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Garfinkel on Forms of Explanation.Andrew Lugg - 1983 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 13 (4):633-646.

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Reduction in Genetics—Biology or Philosophy?David L. Hull - 1972 - Philosophy of Science 39 (4):491-499.

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