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Holistic Explanation
Action, Space, Interpretation

Christopher Peacocke

Price: £50.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-824605-3
Publication date: 8 November 1979
228 pages, 216x138 mm
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
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
INDEX

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Christopher Peacocke

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