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Ronald M. Yoshida: “Reduction in The Physical Sciences.” (Philosophy in Canada, Vol. 4) Dalhousie: Dalhousie University Press, 1977. 90 pages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2010

Cliff Hooker
Cliff Hooker
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University of Western Ontario
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Yoshida's explicit aim is to defend the standard empiricist model of reduction-bydeduction (SERM hereafter) from recent attacks. Thus the treatment is limited in both scope and orientation.

I shall argue that Yoshida does not succeed. The failure is both internal (on his own terms) and external (what is outside his scope).

Type
Critical Notices/Études Critiques
Information
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , March 1979 , pp. 81 - 99
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1979

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