Overview
We find ôverticalö relations in many different realms, whether between atoms and molecules, words and sentences, neurons and brains, or individuals and societies. This book is the first to bring together, and comparatively assess, the exciting array of philosophical approaches to vertical relations that have independently sprung up in analytic metaphysics, the metaphysics of mind, and the philosophy of science. Analytic metaphysicians have recently focused on a relation of æGroundÆ that is claimed to be found in aesthetics, ethics, logic, mathematics, science, and semantics. Metaphysicians of mind have focussed on a vertical relation of ærealizationÆ between properties, whilst philosophers of science associated with the rise of the æNew MechanismÆ have renewed interest in vertical relations of scientific composition found in so-called ômechanistic explanationsö. This volume analyses the inter-relations between these different approaches to spark a range of new debates, including whether the various frameworks for vertical relations are independent, complementary or in even competition.
- | Author: Kenneth Aizawa, Carl Gillett
- | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- | Publication Date: Nov 17, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 323 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Science
- | ISBN-10: 1137562153
- | ISBN-13: 9781137562159
