Table of Contents

Part 1 Why reduction? and why a new-wave version? reductionism revived as a program; a puzzle about nonreductive physicalism. Part 2 Exploiting Hooker's insights: Clifford Hooker's general theory of reduction; applying Hooker's theory - the reduction of the simple thermodynamics of gases to kinetic theory and statistical mechanics; the intertheoretic-reduction reformulation of the mind-body problem; the place for everything argument. Part 3 a theory of intertheoretic reduction: the structuralist model of theories; the reduction relation rho; the "too weak to be adequate" challenge; blurs on rho -significantly corrective reductions; the intertheoretic-reduction spectrum and the distinction between genuine albeit bumpy reductions and mere historical theory successions. Part 4 The irrelevance of arguments against classical reduction: antireductionist arguments based on Davidson's principle of Anomalousness of the Mental; Fodor's conceptual argument from multiple realizability; the obvious objection to the "across individuals at times" counter; three methodological caveats and the mistakes they rest upon; from multiple realizability to a final methodological caveat and the introduction of Token-Token reduction to address it. Part 5 The "put up or shut up" challenge: associative learning - it's not what you thing it is; lessons for antireductionists; is the foundational model of theories and theory reductions applicable to the cognitive and brain sciences? Part 6 Revisionary physicalism: the core properties of propositional attitudes; revisionary physicalism.