Reductionism reading list

lukeprog

Yudkowsky, Reductionism sequence (2008)
Ladyman et al., Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized (2007)
Bickle, Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Ruthlessly Reductive Account (2003)
Bickle, 'Real Reduction in Real Neuroscience' (2008)
Glimcher, Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis (2010)
Ney, 'Reductionism' [for Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (2008)
Hohwy & Kallestrup (eds.), Being Reduced (2008)
Drescher, Good and Real (2006)

I can't endorse everything in all these works, but they each provide insights into understanding reduction.

What else do ya'll recommend?

Yudkowsky, Reductionism sequence (2008)
Ladyman et al., Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized (2007)
Bickle, Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Ruthlessly Reductive Account (2003)
Bickle, 'Real Reduction in Real Neuroscience' (2008)
Glimcher, Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis (2010)
Ney, 'Reductionism' [for Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (2008)
Hohwy & Kallestrup (eds.), Being Reduced (2008)
Drescher, Good and Real (2006)

I can't endorse everything in all these works, but they each provide insights into understanding reduction.

What else do ya'll recommend?

Do any of the items on the reading list besides Yudkowsky's sequence deal with dissolving the question to cognitive algorithms? I don't know if this idea has been spotted in academia or if it's just a LessWrong/AI-researcher-turned-philosopher thing.

Also, I would recommend adding Gary Drescher's Good and Real to the list.

Reductionism "from mystery to science" is hardly a reductionism...

1lukeprog15y

Duh, Drescher! Added. Thanks. As for dissolving the question to cognitive algorithms, there are certainly many philosophers and scientists who have written about why the brain produces certain unfounded debates in philosophy. See... * 'Explaining the cognitive processes that generate our intuitions' * 'Greene's work on moral judgment' * 'Dennett's Freedom Evolves' * 'Talbot on intuitionism about consciousness' * 'The mechanism behind Gettier intuitions' ...in this comment.

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