Reduction and emergence: a critique of Kim

Needham, Paul

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“…I take heart from recent defences of Nagel's account, and similar accounts such asSchaffner's (1967Schaffner's ( , 1976, against their critics; e.g. Endicott (1998),Marras (2002),Klein (2009), Needham (2009, Dizadji-Bahmani,Frigg and Hartmann (2010).…”

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Emergence, Reduction and Supervenience: A Varied Landscape

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“…550-555, 557-558) is a recent survey, cast partly in terms of our topic, emergence.Horgan (1993, p. 575-577) is a fine brief survey of the prospects for non-reductive materialism Marras (2002). andNeedham (2009) are recent critiques of Kim.…”

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“…The active sites associated with the hydrogen bonds (bond lengths) are O 31 ···H 52 -O 51 (0.1677 nm) and =C 25 -H 27 ···O 50 (0.2197 nm), respectively.All of the bond lengths were within the range of lengths associated with hydrogen bonds[28]. Complexes (1…”

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Utilization of theoretical studies of the imprinting ratio to guide experimental research into the molecular imprinted polymers formed using enrofloxacin and methacrylic acid

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Computational approaches have been suggested as rational and fast methods for optimizing imprinting ratios. The B3LYP/6-31 g(d,p) level was applied to simulate the self-assembled system of molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) formed by enrofloxacin (ENRO) and methacrylic acid (MAA). Geometry optimization, the bonding situation, and the binding energies involved were studied to determine the impact of varying the imprinting ratio on the recognition characteristics. These theoretical results showed that the compound with an ENRO:MAA ratio of 1:7 had the lowest binding energy and the most stable structure. MIPs with different imprinting ratios of ENRO to MAA were then prepared in order to study the binding capacities of the polymers experimentally. The experimental and theoretically calculated results for these polymers were found to be consistent with each other. In dynamic adsorption experiments on the MIPs, the adsorption reaction was observed to reach a balanced state after 120 min. Analysis of the Scatchard plot revealed that the dissociation constant (K d) and the apparent maximum binding capacity (Q max) of MIPs with high-affinity sites were 451.67 mg/L and 42.23 mg/g, respectively, whereas the dissociation constant and apparent maximum binding capacity of MIPs with low-affinity sites were 883.39 mg/L and 73.15 mg/g, respectively. The quantity of ENRO adsorbed onto the MIPs was considerably higher than the quantities of ciprofloxacin (CIP) and ofloxacin (OFL) adsorbed, indicating that these MIPs have a much higher specific absorption capacity than the corresponding non-imprinted polymers.

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“…Physicists are used to saying things like ''renormalizability is an emergent property of ordinary matter'' (Laughlin and Pines 2000, p. 29). 25 In general, there is no neat correlation between temperature and energy, not even for individual substances (Needham 2009). 26 Including bridge laws without ''level'' distinction; for example the relation between gravitational and inertial mass.…”

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Chemistry and physics: no need for metaphysical glue

Brakel

2010

Found Chem

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Using the notorious bridge law ''water is H 2 O'' and the relation between molecular structure and quantum mechanics as examples, I argue that it doesn't make sense to aim for specific definition(s) of intertheoretical or interdiscourse relation(s) between chemistry and physics (reduction, supervenience, what have you). Proposed definitions of interdiscourse and part-whole relations are interesting only if they provide insight in the variegated interconnected patchwork of theories and beliefs. There is ''automatically'' some sort of interdiscourse relation if different discourses claim to have something to say about the same situation (event, system), which is the basis of (contingent) local supervenience relations, which, proper empirically support being provided, can be upgraded to ceteris paribus bridge laws. Because of the ceteris paribus feature, and the discourse dependence of event identification, there is at best only global supervenience of the ''special sciences'' on the physical (and of parts of physics on other parts of physics). Events and discoursesConsider four discourses for speaking about water.1. The human-centred (non-scientific) discourse concerning manifest features of the world, what Putnam (1975) called the stereotypical features of water. This discourse on the ''stuff'' water is not restricted to common sense. It may include sophisticated (Husserlian or Wittgensteinian) phenomenology. 2. Scientific discourse concerning macroscopic bodies of water, emerging from the manifest discourse; for example the event of boiling water. Here we encounter macroscopic (scientific) theories such as thermodynamics and hydrodynamics.

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Reduction and emergence: a critique of Kim

Cited by 24 publications

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Emergence, Reduction and Supervenience: A Varied Landscape

Emergence, Reduction and Supervenience: A Varied Landscape

Utilization of theoretical studies of the imprinting ratio to guide experimental research into the molecular imprinted polymers formed using enrofloxacin and methacrylic acid

Chemistry and physics: no need for metaphysical glue

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