Without Hierarchies
Download or Read eBook Without Hierarchies PDF written by Mariam Thalos and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Mariam Thalos |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2013-06-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780199917648 |
ISBN-13 | : 0199917647 |
Rating | : 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Without Hierarchies by : Mariam Thalos
Book excerpt: This book argues that there is causation at every scale of measurement - countering the philosophical position that causation, or "activity," occurs only at the minutest scales of measurement (the scale of microphysics). Thalos's scale-free model, as she shows, is much more hospitable to the models of physicists than are the single-scale models proposed by both reductionists and emergentists.