期刊名称：Hyle : International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry
印刷版ISSN：1433-5158
出版年度：2013
卷号：19
期号：1
页码：135-137
出版社：HYLE Publications, Karlsruhe and University of Karlsruhe
摘要：The many-faced relationship between chemistry and physics is one of the mostly discussed topics in the philosophy of chemistry. Hinne Hettema conceives this relationship as a reduction link, and devotes his book to de-fend this position on the basis of a 'naturalized' concept of reduction. The book (the author's doctoral thesis) consists of a first chapter and three parts. The first chapter, entitled 'Reduction: its prospects and limits', offers an overview of the notion of reduction from a historical perspective, from 19th-century positivism through Nagel's locus classicus to certain con-temporary reductionist proposals. Here Hettema defends a liberal and 'natu-ralized' Nagelian reduction, which admits a number of modifications that weaken the original scheme. From this viewpoint, he considers the relation between reduction and unity of science, and critically discusses certain recent anti-reductionist positions in the philosophy of chemistry
