Views on Reduction

20 July 2010

Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, LSE

Programme

10.00 Introduction to workshop

Part 1. Reduction in Philosophy and History of Science

Andreas Hüttemann, University of Munster: 'Physicalism and the Part-Whole Relation'
Jordi Cat, Indiana University: 'Analysis of Theories and Synthesis of Models, Reduction, Cooperation and Compromise'

Part 2. Reduction in Social Science and in Theology

Margaret Schabas, UBC: 'What, Precisely, is meant by 'the Economy''?
Keith Ward, Oxford: 'Theological Attitudes to Naturalism'

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