Reduction, Time and Reality : Studies in the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences (Paperback)

Contributors; Introduction; 1. Theoretical explanation Michael Friedman; 2. The case of the lonely corpuscle: reductive explanation and primitive expressions Peter Alexander; 3. Three kinds of intentional psychology D. C. Dennett; 4. Time and reality P. C. W. Davies; 5. McTaggart, fixity and coming true D. H. Mellor; 6. Statistical theories, quantum mechanics and the directedness of time Richard Healey; 7. Time, reality and relativity Lawrence Sklar; 8. Modal reality Colin McGinn; 9. Essences and laws of nature Bas C. van Fraassen; Index.