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ISBN-10 :  1134336241 

ISBN-13 : 9781134336241

Author: Andreas Huttemann

‘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 Hüttemann offers a fresh challenge to this view. Hüttemann 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. Hüttemann 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’. Hüttemann 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.

What’s Wrong with Microphysicalism 1st Table of contents:

1. Chapter 1: Microphysicalism
2. The multilayered conception of reality
3. Microphysicalism
4. The significance of microphysicalism
5. Analysis of the argument for microphysicalism
6. Chapter 2: Laws of nature
7. Explanation, manifestation and instantiation
8. Laws and dispositions
9. Continuously manifestable dispositions
10. What is explained by the assumption of CMDs?
11. Conclusion
12. Chapter 3: Micro-explanation
13. Distinctions
14. Micro-explanation (1) and the explanation of bridge-laws
15. Micro-explanation (3): C. D. Broad on the relation of parts and wholes
16. Micro-explanation (3) at work
17. Micro-explanation (2) and micro-explanation (4): explaining the states of compound systems
18. Micro-explanation and emergence
19. Failure of micro-explanation (1): emergence in Kim’s sense
20. Failure of micro-explanation (3): emergence in Broad’s sense
21. The case of quantum entanglement
22. A diagnosis
23. Other modes of explanation
24. Concluding remarks
25. Chapter 4: What is the issue?
26. The issue
27. Non-issue 1: functionalism
28. Non-issue 2: the explanatory gap
29. Chapter 5: Micro-determination
30. Explanation
31. Determination
32. A note on the pragmatics of explanation
33. Underdetermination
34. Hegemony
35. Micro-explanation and micro-determination
36. Objections and replies
37. Conclusion
38. Chapter 6: Micro-government and the laws of the special sciences
39. Autonomy
40. Micro-government
41. On the instantiation of micro-laws
42. The failure of supervenience
43. The relativity of instantiation
44. The special laws of many-particle physics
45. Conclusion
46. Appendix
47. Chapter 7: Micro-causation
48. Three models of micro-dependent causation
49. Causation
50. Micro-causation
51. Conclusion
52. Chapter 8: Microphysicalism, physicalism and pluralism
53. Definitions of physicalism
54. Microphysicalism and identity-physicalism
55. Ontological unity and pragmatic pluralism

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