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On the Role of Bridge Laws in Intertheoretic Relations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2022
Abstract
What is the role of bridge laws in intertheoretic relations? An assumption shared by many views about these relations is that bridge laws enable reductions. In this article, I acknowledge the naturalness of this assumption, but I question it by presenting a context within thermal physics (involving phase transitions) in which the bridge laws, puzzlingly, seem to contribute to blocking the reduction.
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I benefited from conversations with Margaret Morrison, Robert Batterman, Jeremy Butterfield, Roman Frigg, Eleanor Knox, Anouk Barberousse, Cyrille Imbert, Sam Schindler, Alex Manafu, and Dragos Bagu. I am of course the only one responsible for any errors remaining.
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