This philosophical position was influentially stated in a 1956 paper by John Kemeny and Paul Oppenheim.
This philosophical position was influentially stated in a 1956 paper by John Kemeny and Paul Oppenheim. The champions of this position's "new wave" include Clifford Hooker and John Bickle. Another influential model of this position, which was amended by Kenneth Schaffner, distinguishes between homogeneous and heterogeneous forms of this position's central concept, and relies on derivations assisted by bridge laws. In The Structure of Science, Ernest Nagel set forth his model of this position. Dan Dennett's book Darwin's Dangerous Idea supports a form of this position that attempts to explain apparent design without "skyhooks," rather than without "cranes." The argument from multiple realizability opposes this position, which is attacked along with the analytic-synthetic distinction in W.V.O. Quine's "Two Dogmas of Empiricism." For 10 points, name this philosophical doctrine stating that complex phenomena can be fully explained in terms of lower-level phenomena.
This philosophical position was influentially stated in a 1956 paper by John Kemeny and Paul Oppenheim.
reductionism