Special sciences (or¶
Fodor, J. A. (1974). Special sciences (or: The disunity of science as a working hypothesis). Synthese, 28(2), 97-115.
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- Reductionism
- The pattern travels with its characteristic failure modes intact: wherever the upward-composition step cannot be carried out, even in principle, the reductive promise is said to break, and the same diagnostic vocabulary (emergence, multiple realizability, irreducibility) is deployed regardless of the home domain, as Fodor (1974) argued in his case for the autonomy of the special sciences.
This sourceArgues for the autonomy of the special sciences via multiple realizability, supplying the canonical anti-reductive vocabulary for why upward derivation of higher-level laws can fail in principle even where token states are physically determined.
- The pattern travels with its characteristic failure modes intact: wherever the upward-composition step cannot be carried out, even in principle, the reductive promise is said to break, and the same diagnostic vocabulary (emergence, multiple realizability, irreducibility) is deployed regardless of the home domain, as Fodor (1974) argued in his case for the autonomy of the special sciences.
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