0 Introduction In deening concurrency one dichotomy that has arisen is between reductionism and primitivism. The reductionist viewpoint reduces concurrent behavior to nondeterministic sequential behavior by viewing it as interleaving. The primitive school treats concurrent behavior as a basic form of behavior in its own right, distinct from and indeed more general than sequential behavior. A ba...

Abstract I consider a problem for functional reductionism based on the following tension. Say that b is functionally reduced to . On one hand, and turn out be identical, identity symmetric relation. other implies are asymmetrically related: if , then not Thus we ask, how can related they same thing? propose solution this tension by distinguishing between ontological levels of description.

Traditionally science is done using the reductionism paradigm. Artificial intelligence does not make an exception and it follows the same strategy. At the same time, network science tries to study complex systems as a whole. This Ph.D. research takes an alternative approach to the reductionism strategy, and tries to advance both fields, i.e. artificial intelligence and network science, by searc...

Michael Esfeld & Christian Sachse University of Lausanne, Department of Philosophy CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland [email protected], [email protected] published in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 21 (2007), pp. 1–17 Abstract The paper sets out a new strategy for theory reduction by means of functional sub-types. This strategy is intended to get around the m...

Contra an expanding number of deflationary commentators on Wittgenstein, I argue that philosophical questions about meaning are meaningful and that Wittgenstein gave us ample reason to believe so. Deflationists are right in claiming that Wittgenstein rejected the sceptical problem about meaning allegedly to be found in his later writings and also right in stressing Wittgenstein’s anti-reduction...