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  1. Effective Field Theories, Reductionism and Scientific Explanation.Stephan Hartmann - 2001 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 32 (2):267-304.
    Effective field theories have been a very popular tool in quantum physics for almost two decades. And there are good reasons for this. I will argue that effective field theories share many of the advantages of both fundamental theories and phenomenological models, while avoiding their respective shortcomings. They are, for example, flexible enough to cover a wide range of phenomena, and concrete enough to provide a detailed story of the specific mechanisms at work at a given energy scale. So will (...)
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  • Explanatory loops and the limits of genetic reductionism.Martin Carrier & Patrick Finzer - 2006 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 20 (3):267 – 283.
    We reconstruct genetic determinism as a reductionist thesis to the effect that the molecular properties of cells can be accounted for to a great extent by their genetic outfit. The non-reductionist arguments offered at this molecular level often use the relationship between structure and function as their point of departure. By contrast, we develop a non-reductionist argument that is confined to the structural characteristics of biomolecules; no appeal to functions is made. We raise two kinds of objections against the reducibility (...)
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  • Lenguaje, ontología y relaciones interteóricas: en favor de un genuino pluralismo ontológico.Olimpia Lombardi & Ana Rosa Pérez Ransanz - 2011 - Arbor 187 (747):43-52.
    En este artículo nos proponemos discutir el problema de las relaciones interteóricas desde la perspectiva de un pluralismo ontológico que adopta un realismo de raigambre kantiana. Para ello comenzamos por recordar el concepto tradicional de reducción y sus limitaciones, poniendo el énfasis en los supuestos metafísicos que conlleva tal concepción. A continuación, analizamos otra difundida postura que concibe las relaciones interteóricas en términos de relaciones funcionales, a fin de poner al descubierto ciertas conclusiones inadecuadas que suelen inferirse de tal interpretación. (...)
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  • The role of a posteriori mathematics in physics.Edward MacKinnon - 2018 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 62:166-175.
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