The secret art of Antonin Artaud / Jacques Derrida & Paule Thévenin ; translation and preface by Mary Ann Caws.

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Main Author: Derrida, Jacques.
Other Authors: Thévenin, Paule.
Format: eBook
Language:English
French
German
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Why Reduction? And Why a New-Wave Version? 1. Reductionism Revived as a Program. 2. A Puzzle about Nonreductive Physicalism. 3. The Mind-Body Problem as a "Levels" Problem
  • 2. Exploiting Hooker's Insights. 1. Clifford Hooker's General Theory of Reduction. 2. Applying Hooker's Theory: The Reduction of the Simple Thermodynamics of Gases to Kinetic Theory and Statistical Mechanics. 3. The Intertheoretic-Reduction Reformulation of the Mind-Body Problem. 4. The "Place for Everything" Argument
  • 3. A Theory of Intertheoretic Reduction. 1. The Structuralist Model of Theories. 2. The Reduction Relation [rho]. 3. The "Too Weak to Be Adequate" Challenge. 4. Blurs on [rho]: Significantly Corrective Reductions. 5. The Intertheoretic-Reduction Spectrum and the Distinction between Genuine Albeit Bumpy Reductions and Mere Historical Theory Successions
  • 4. The Irrelevance of Arguments against Classical Reduction.