The devil in the details : asymptotic reasoning in explanation, reduction, and emergence / Robert W. Batterman.

The author's study of the complexities of universal behaviour, proposes that asymptotic reasoning is essential for explaining universal behaviour. This has important consequences for our understanding of the scientific process as a whole.

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Main Author: Batterman, Robert W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Series:Oxford studies in philosophy of science.
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Asymptotic Reasoning -- 2.1. The Euler Strut -- 2.2. Universality -- 2.3. Intertheoretic Relations -- 2.4. Emergence -- 3. Philosophical Theories of Explanation -- 3.1. Different Why-Questions -- 3.2. Hempelian Explanation and Its Successors -- 4. Asymptotic Explanation -- 4.1. The Renormalization Group (RG) -- 4.2. The General Strategy -- 4.3. "Intermediate Asymptotics" -- 4.4. Conclusion: The Role of Stability -- 5. Philosophical Models of Reduction -- 5.1. Nagelian Reduction -- 5.2. Multiple Realizability -- 5.3. Kim's "Functional Model of Reduction" -- 5.4. A Metaphysical Mystery -- 5.5. Multiple Realizability as Universality -- 6. Intertheoretic Relations -- Optics -- 6.1. "Reduction₂" -- 6.2. Singular Limits -- 6.3. Wave and Ray Theories -- 6.4. Universality: Diffraction Catastrophe Scaling Laws -- 7. Intertheoretic Relations -- Mechanics -- 7.1. Classical and Quantum Theories -- 7.2. The WKB Method -- 7.3. Semiclassical "Emergents." 
505 8 |a 8. Emergence -- 8.1. Emergence and the Philosophy of Mind -- 8.2. The Rainbow Revisited: An Example of Emergence? -- 8.3. A New Sense of Emergence -- 8.4. Tenet 5: Novel Causal Powers? -- 9. Conclusions. 
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