Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I Freedom Is a Logic -- 1 An Existential Prelude -- 2 Freedom Worth Wanting -- 3 The Grammar of Experience and the Logic of Freedom -- 4 Existential Syllogisms --…
This text argues that there is causation at every scale of measurement - countering the philosophical position that causation, or 'activity, ' occurs only at the minutest scales of measurement (the scale of microphysics). Thalos's scale-free model, as she shows, is much more hos…
This text argues that there is causation at every scale of measurement - countering the philosophical position that causation, or 'activity, ' occurs only at the minutest scales of measurement (the scale of microphysics). Thalos's scale-free model, as she shows, is much more hos…
A venerable tradition in the metaphysics of science commends ontological reduction: the practice of analysis of theoretical entities into further and further proper parts, with the understanding that the original entity is nothing but the sum of these. This tradition implicitly …