| What's Wrong With Microphysicalism? Contributor(s): Huttemann, Andreas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138873845 ISBN-13: 9781138873841 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $65.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Mind & Body - Science | Physics - General - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Arts & Humanities |
| Dewey: 530.01 |
| Lexile Measure: 1250 |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.49 lbs) 152 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 'Microphysicalism', the view that whole objects behave the way they do in virtue of the behaviour of their constituent parts, is an influential contemporary view with a long philosophical and scientific heritage. In What's Wrong With Microphysicalism? Andreas H ttemann offers a fresh challenge to this view. H ttemann agrees with the microphysicalists that we can explain compound systems by explaining their parts, but claims that this does not entail a fundamentalism that gives hegemony to the micro-level. At most, it shows that there is a relationship of determination between parts and wholes, but there is no justification for taking this relationship to be asymmetrical rather than one of mutual dependence. H ttemann argues that if this is the case, then microphysicalists have no right to claim that the micro-level is the ultimate agent: neither the parts nor the whole have 'ontological priority'. H ttemann advocates a pragmatic pluralism, allowing for different ways to describe nature. What's Wrong With Microphysicalism? is a convincing and original contribution to central issues in contemporary philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and metaphysics. |