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dc.contributor.authorCraver, Carl F.
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-10T10:47:04Z
dc.date.available2016-11-10T11:47:04Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.urihttps://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/437-
dc.description.abstractThe levels metaphor is commonly used to describe science, its theories, and the world. Yet the metaphor means different things in different contexts, inviting equivocation. These distinct applications of the metaphor can be distinguished by the relata they relate, the relation between levels that they assert, and the rule by which they locate items at a level. I discuss these many applications of the levels metaphor with an eye to developing a descriptively adequate account of one particular application: levels of mechanisms. I argue that this application of the metaphor is central to the explanatory practices of the special sciences and defensible as a metaphysical picture of how phenomena studied in the special sciences are constituted.en_GB
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsInCopyrightde_DE
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dc.subject.ddc100 Philosophiede_DE
dc.subject.ddc100 Philosophyen_GB
dc.titleLevelsen_GB
dc.typeBuchbeitragde_DE
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:hebis:77-publ-551443
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-435-
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jgu.type.versionPublished versionen_GB
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jgu.organisation.departmentFB 05 Philosophie und Philologie-
jgu.organisation.number7920-
jgu.organisation.nameJohannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz-
jgu.rights.accessrightsopenAccess-
jgu.book.titleOpen MIND
jgu.book.editorMetzinger, Thomas
jgu.pages.alternativeKap. 8(T)
jgu.publisher.year2015
jgu.publisher.nameMIND Group
jgu.publisher.placeFrankfurt am Main
jgu.publisher.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.15502/9783958570498
jgu.organisation.placeMainz-
jgu.subject.ddccode100
opus.date.accessioned2016-11-10T10:47:04Z
opus.date.modified2016-11-10T10:48:15Z
opus.date.available2016-11-10T11:47:04
opus.subject.dfgcode00-000
opus.organisation.stringFB 05: Philosophie und Philologie: Philosophisches Seminarde_DE
opus.identifier.opusid55144
opus.relation.ispartofcollectionOpen Mindde_DE
opus.institute.number0508
opus.metadataonlyfalse
opus.type.contenttypeKeinede_DE
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jgu.publisher.doi10.15502/9783958570498
jgu.organisation.rorhttps://ror.org/023b0x485
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