Jerry Fodor and Hilary Putnam have argued that multiple realizability undermines this concept and preserves the autonomy of "special sciences.
An argument based on causal closure and the rejection of overdetermination grounds Jaegwon Kim's defense of a kind of physicalism based on this concept. Jerry Fodor and Hilary Putnam have argued that multiple realizability undermines this concept and preserves the autonomy of "special sciences." The "greedy" version of this concept is dismissed, while a more modest form is defended through the metaphor of a crane, in Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett. Along with the analytic-synthetic divide, a semantic form of this concept is one of the "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" Quine claimed to have refuted. Ernest Nagel identified this concept with the process of showing a theory to be logical consequence of a "base" theory via bridge laws. For 10 points, name this concept that most commonly refers to the ability of observations about an entity to be explained as solely the interactions of its parts.
An argument based on causal closure and the rejection of overdetermination grounds Jaegwon Kim's defense of a kind of physicalism based on this concept.
Reductionism [accept word forms; accept "reductive physicalism" until "greedy"]