Title Statements
- Full title :Holistic explanation : action, space, interpretation / by Christopher Peacocke.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:1979.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1979.
The Physical Object
- Description:vi, 219 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0198246056, 9780198246053
- oclc:ocm05336799
- LC Classification:B818
- Dewey Decimal:160
Table of Contents
I. The parallels : 1. Irreducibilities -- 2. A priori principles -- 3. Approach to a definition -- 4. The basis of the holism -- 5. Relationalism -- II. Deviant causal chains : 1. Some inadequate suggestions -- 2. Differential explanation -- 3. Comparisons with rival theories -- 4. Refinements -- 5. Integration -- III. Physicalism : 1. Realization and physicalist theses -- 2. Kripke's objections -- 3. An argument for token identity -- 4. Constraints on explanation -- 5. Further defence -- 6. Indexicality and points of view -- IV. Interpretation : 1. Applying a scheme -- 2. Radical interpretation -- 3. A fuller argument -- 4. Integrated quasi-reductions.
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