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Being Reduced
New Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and Causation
Edited by Jakob Hohwy and Jesper Kallestrup
336 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-921153-1
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Hardback
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04 September 2008
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- Presents cutting-edge research by an international team of leading philosophers
- Integrates key issues in contemporary philosophy of mind and science
- Ranges from theoretical metaphysics over philosophy of science to interdisciplinary studies, demonstrating how issues of reduction, explanation, and causation impact across the field
There are few more unsettling philosophical questions than this: What happens in attempts to reduce some properties to some other more fundamental properties? Reflection on this question inevitably touches on very deep issues about ourselves, our own interactions with the world and each other, and our very understanding of what there is and what goes on around us. If we cannot command a clear view of these deep issues, then very many other debates in contemporary philosophy seem to lose traction - think of causation, laws of nature,
explanation, consciousness, personal identity, intentionality, normativity, freedom, responsibility, justice, and so on. Reduction can easily seem to unravel our world.
Here, an eminent group of philosophers helps us answer this question. Their novel contributions comfortably span a number of current debates in philosophy and cognitive science: what is the nature of reduction, of reductive explanation, of mental causation? The contributions range from approaches in theoretical metaphysics, over philosophy of the special sciences and physics, to interdisciplinary studies in psychiatry and neurobiology. The authors connect strands in contemporary philosophy that are often treated separately and in combination the chapters allow the reader to see how issues of
reduction, explanation and causation mutually constrain each other. The anthology therefore moves the debate further both at the level of contributions to specific debates and at the level of integrating insights from a number of debates.Readership: Students and scholars in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, metaphysics, and cognitive science
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Edited by Jakob Hohwy, Monash University, Australia, and Jesper Kallestrup, University of Edinburgh Contributors:
Louise Antony is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Karen Bennett is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University
John Bickle is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati
Tim Crane is Professor of Philosophy at University College London
Valerie Gray Hardcastle is Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Jaegwon Kim is the William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of
Philosophy at Brown University
Peter Lipton was the Hans Rausing Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University
Christian List is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at the London School of Economics
Barry Loewer is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University
Peter Menzies is Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University
David Papineau is Professor of Philosophy of Science at King's College London
Philip Pettit is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University
Peter Godfrey-Smith is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University
Rosalyn Stewart is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins
University
Daniel Stoljar is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University
James Woodward is the J.O and Juliette Koepfli Professor of Humanities at the California Institute of Technology
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"The general impression from the reading of this selection of studies is one of the sophisticated analysis, in line with the best Anglo-Saxon analytical tradition, on the real possibilities of conveying programs of reduction, on the different models available, and on their flaws and limits. This is certainly the most technical study published to date on this issue, the one paying greatest attention to detailand applying the most nanced distinctions." - Lluis Oviedo, ESSSAT News
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Jakob Hohwy and Jesper Kallestrup: Introduction
1: Valerie Gray Hardcastle and Rosalyn Stewart: Reduction and Embodied Cognition:Perspectives from Medicine and Psychiatry
2: John Bickle: Real Reduction in Real Neuroscience: Metascience, Not Philosophy of Science (and Certainly Not Metaphysics!)
3: Peter Godfrey-Smith: Reduction in Real Life
4: Christian List & Philip Pettit: Group Agency and Supervenience
5: Jaegwon Kim: Reduction and Reductive Explanation: Is One Possible without the Other?
6: Peter Lipton: CP Laws, Reduction, and Explanatory Pluralism
7: David Papineau: Must a Physicalist be a Microphysicalist?
8: Barry Loewer: Why There Is Anything except Physics
9: Louise Antony: Multiple realisation: keeping it real
10: Tim Crane: Causation and determinable properties: on the efficacy of colour, shape and size
11: Peter Menzies: The exclusion problem, the determination relation, and contrastive causation
12: James Woodward: Mental Causation and Neural Mechanisms
13: Daniel Stoljar: Distinctions in Distinction
14: Karen Bennett: Exclusion again
Index
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