ONTOLOGICAL REDUCTION: A COMMENT ON LOMBARDI AND LABARCA

Author： Needham Paul  

Publisher： Springer Publishing Company

ISSN： 1386-4238

Source： Foundations of Chemistry, Vol.8, Iss.1, 2006-02, pp. : 73-80

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Abstract

In a recent article in this journal (Foundations of Chemistry, 7 (2005), 125–148) Lombardi and Labarca call into question a thesis of ontological reduction to which several writers on reduction subscribe despite rejecting a thesis of epistemological reduction. Lombardi and Labarca advocate instead a pluralistic ontology inspired by Putnam’s internal realism. I suggest that it is not necessary to go so far, and that a more critical view of the ontological reduction espoused by the authors they criticise circumvents the need to resort to their radical alternative.

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