Intertheoretic reduction

In

Newtonian mechanics for speeds far less than c

According to Alexander Rosenberg philosophers mostly these days believe that reduction between sciences is possible in principle but concepts we currently have do not allow reductions even in many cases in which natural sciences are involved, for instance from biology to chemistry.^[1]

Often, the extent to which one theory can be said to be reduced to another theory is complicated by the existence of

phenomenological thermodynamics to statistical mechanics. However, it has been argued that there are some phenomena (e.g. phase transitions and critical phenomena) that cannot be reductively explicated in terms of the "more fundamental" theory of statistical mechanics.^[2]

Especially psychology is seen often as a "scientific dead-end" due to its intentional concepts (though psychology does not necessarily have to use intentional concepts). Logical analysis has suggested that intentional concepts are not reducible to non-intentional concepts used by neurophysiology in which is the discipline "underlying" the psychology.^[3]

References

^ Alexander Rosenberg - Philosophy of Social Science, second edition, page 140, published in 1995 by Westview Press.
^ Batterman, Robert (2009) Emergence, Singularities, and Symmetry Breaking.
^ Rosenberg's book, chapter 2

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[1] Alexander Rosenberg - Philosophy of Social Science, second edition, page 140, published in 1995 by Westview Press.

[2] Batterman, Robert (2009) Emergence, Singularities, and Symmetry Breaking.

[3] Rosenberg's book, chapter 2

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