Special sciences
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Special sciences are sciences, other than fundamental physics, that are presumed to be, at least in principle, reducible to fundamental physics, which is posed as fundamental science. In this view, even chemistry, biology, and neuroscience—all sciences but fundamental physics—are special sciences. The status of the special sciences, and their relation to physics, is unresolved in philosophy of science, however. Jerry Fodor, for instance, has argued for strong autonomy, concluding that the special sciences are not even in prinicple reducible to physics.[1]
See also
- Emergentism
- Multiple realizability
- Physics
- Reduction (philosophy)
- Supervenience
- The central science
- Unity of science
References
- ↑ Fodor, J. (1974): "Special sciences and the disunity of science as a working hypothesis", Synthese, 28, pp. 77-115.
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