Theoretical reduction: The limits and alternatives to reductive methods in scientific explanation

Philosophy of the Social Sciences 1 (1):83-100 (1971)
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Science without reduction.Helmut F. Spinner - 1973 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 16 (1-4):16 – 94.
Reduction in the Social Sciences: The Future or Utopia?Jacek Szmatka - 1989 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19 (4):425-444.

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