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Bickle, John (2003) Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Ruthlessly Reductive Account, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Vi leser kapittel 1, ca 43 sider.

Collins, J., N. Hall, and L. Paul (eds.) (2004) Counterfactuals and Causation, MIT Press. Vi leser introduksjonen ca 59 sider.

Craver, Carl (2007) Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience, Clarendon Press. Vi leser kapittel 5, ca 33 sider.

Hull, David (1972) “Reduction in Genetics – Biology or Philosophy”, Philosophy of Science, Vol.39, No.4, pp. 491-499. Ca 10 sider.

Lewis, David “Causation” in Sosa & Tooley (1993). Ca 22 sider.

Mackie, J.L. (1980) The Cement of the Universe: A Study of Causation, Clarendon Press. Vi leser kapittel 3, ca 29 sider.

Menzies, Peter (2004) "Difference-Making in Context", in J. Collins, N. Hall, and L. Paul (eds.), Counterfactuals and Causation, MIT Press, pp. 139-80. Ca 21 sider.

Nagel, Ernest (1979) The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation, Hackett. Vi leser kapittel 11, ca 62 sider

Oppenheim, Paul & Hilary Putnam (1958) “The Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis”, in Herbert Feigl, Grover Maxwell and Michael Scriven (eds.), Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science Volume II: Concepts, Theories, and the Mind-Body Problem. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 3-36. ca 33 sider. Schaffner, Kenneth (1967) “Approaches to reduction”, Philosophy of Science, Vol.34, No.2, pp. 137- 147. Ca 10 sider.

Sosa, Ernest & Michael Tooley (eds.) (1993) Causation, Oxford University Press. Vi leser introduksjonen, som er en oversikt over diskusjonen anno 1993, ca 32 sider.

Woodward, James (2003) Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation, Oxford University Press. Kapittel 1 og 2, ca 93 sider.

Publisert 2. apr. 2009 14:22 - Sist endret 15. juni 2009 17:17