Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Filozófia Intézet
- Kód
- BMI-LOTD-612E.01
- Cím
- Reduction and emergence
- Tervezett félév
- Őszi
- Meghirdetve
- 2023/24/2
- ECTS
- 4
- Nyelv
- en
- Oktatás célja
- Tantárgy tartalma
- General aim of the course: The aim of this course is to survey the main philosophical issues surronding the notions that one theory reduces to another and one phenomenon emerges from another. Content of the course: The course will touch on various logical, epistemological, metaphysical and specific scientific aspects of reduction and emergence: • classical models of theory reduction: Nagel and Suppes • supervenience • explicit and implicit definability, Beth’s theorem • elimination, Ramsey sentence and Craig’s theorem • emergent properties • singular limits • physicalism and the mind-body problem • the causal theory of time • the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics • individualism and holism in the social sciences Grading criteria, specific requirements: Grading is based on presentations of the reading material and participation in classes. Prerequisites: some knowledge of logic and formal methods is beneficial. Required reading: Nagel, E. (1979). The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation. Hackett, Indianapolis. Suppes, P. (1967). What is a scientific theory? In Morgenbesser, S., editor, Philosophy of Science Today, pages 55–67. Basic Books, New York. McLaughlin, B. and Bennett, K. (2014). Supervenience. In Zalta, E. N., editor, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Oppenheim, P. and Putnam, H. (1958). Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 2:3–36. Rudolf Carnap, 1966, Philosophical Foundations of Physics: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, New York: Basic Books. Feyerabend, P. K. (1962). Explanation, Reduction, and Empiricism. In Maxwell, G. and Feigl, H., editors, Scientific Explanation, Space and Time, volume III of Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science, pages 28–97. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis Batterman, R. W. (2002). The Devil in the Details: Asymptotic Reasoning in Explanation, Reduction, and Emergence. Oxford University Press. Butterfield, J. (2011b). Less is Different: Emergence and Reduction Reconciled. Foundations of Physics, 41(6):1065–1135. Samuel C. Fletcher, Similarity Structure and Emergent Properties, Philosophy of Science 87(2): 281-301. 2020. H. Field: Physicalism, in J. Earman (ed.) Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations, Univ. of Clifornia Press, Berkeley 1992. Orly Shenker: Flat Physicalism: some implications, Iyyun 66:211-225 (2017). D. Chalmers: The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (1996). Oxford University Press. M. Hemmo, O. Shenker: The road to Maxwell's demon: conceptual foundations of statistical mechanics, Cambridge University Press. D. Malament: Causal Theories of Time and the Conventionality of Simultaniety, Noûs, 11: 293–300 (1977). Christian List & Kai Spiekermann: Methodological Individualism and Holism in Political Science: A Reconciliation, American Political Science Review 107 (4):629-643 (2013).