Conclusion
We do not believe that the reasons which have been offered of late for rejecting non-reductive materialism should be accepted. The reasons for which reductive accounts were largely abandoned remain good ones, and non-reductive materialism remains the most satisfying and sensible account of the relationship among the special sciences.
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Pereboom, D., Kornblith, H. The metaphysics of irreducibility. Philos Stud 63, 125–145 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00381684
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00381684