Christian Sachse
Books 2007 Reductionism in the philosophy of science.
Frankfurt (Main): Ontos-Verlag. Link
Review by Ingo Brigandt, University of Alberta (USA) Link
2010 Kausale Strukturen.
Together with Michael Esfeld. Frankfurt (Main): Suhrkamp-Verlag. Link
Review by Matthias Neuber, University of Tübingen (Germany) Link
2011 Conservative reductionism.
Together with Michael Esfeld. New York / London: Routledge. Link
Review by Clifford Hooker, University of Newcastle (Australia) Link
2011 Philosophie de la biologie. Enjeux et perspectives.
Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes. Link
Review by Nathanaël Laurent Link
Review by Jonathan Racine Link
Review by Francesca Merlin; forthcoming 2014 in: History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Vol. 36, N. 1, pp. 133-135 Link
PPUR Interview Youtube (3min) Link
RSR Espace 2: émission "Babylone" (20.1.2012) Interview: Philippe Zibung (20min) Link Interview
Radio France Culture: émission "Continent Sciences" (11.09.2012) Interview: Stéphane Deligeorges (57min) Link Interview
2005 “Argumente für eine Typenidentität von Eigenschaften”
In: Günter Abel (ed.): Kreativität. XX. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie. Sektionsbeiträge (Berlin: Verlag der TU Berlin 2005); volume 2, pp. 287-297. pdf
2005 “Reduction of biological properties by means of functional sub-types”
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 27, Pp. 435-449. Link pdf
2006 “Intertheoretic deduction of explanations”
In: Michael Esfeld (ed.): John Heil. Symposium on his ontological point of view, Frankfurt (Main): Ontos-Verlag 2006, Pp. 91-107. Link pdf
2007 “Theory reduction by means of functional sub-types”. Together with Michael Esfeld.
International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 21 (1), pp. 1-17. Link pdf
2007 “La philosophie comme réflexion sur les sciences”
Studia Philosophica, 66, pp. 79-92. pdf
2008 “Scientific pragmatic abstraction”
In the proceedings of the 31. Internationales Witgenstein Symposium on “Reduktion und Elimination” (Kirchberg: August 2008). pdf
2008 “Wissenschaftliche Qualität von pragmatischen Abstraktionen der Biologie”
In the proceedings of the XXI. Deutschen Kongress der Philosophie, DGPhil (Essen-Duisburg: September 2008). pdf
2009 “L'autonomie des sciences spéciales reconsidérée”. Together with Patrice Soom.
In: Patrick Ducray (ed.): Actualité de la philosophie analytique, 13, pp. 69-105. (Klesis. Revue philosophique). Link pdf
2010 “Psycho-neural reduction through functional sub-types”. Together with Patrice Soom and Michael Esfeld.
Journal of Consciousness Studies 17, pp. 7-26. Link pdf
2010-11 “Conservative reduction of biology”
Philosophia Naturalis 47-48 (1), pp. 33-65. Link pdf
2011 “Identität statt Emergenz. Plädoyer für einen konservativen Reduktionismus”. Together with Michael Esfeld.
In: Jens Greve and Annette Schnabel (eds): Emergenz. Zur Analyse und Erklärung komplexer Strukturen, Berlin: Suhrkamp-Verlag, pp. 84-110. Link
2012 "Biological laws and kinds within a conservative reductionist framework"
In: D. Dieks, W. J. Gonzales, S. Hartmann, M. Stoeltzner and M. Weber (eds): Probabilities, laws, and structures. Doordrecht: Springer, Volume 3, Part 2, pp. 231-244. Link pdf
2012 "Marrying the merits of Nagelian reduction and functional reduction"
Together with Michael Esfeld and Patrice Soom. In: Acta Analytica, 27(3), pp. 217-230. Link pdf
2013 "Le réductionnisme conservatif. Conserver les sciences spéciales par réduction"
In: M. Silberstein (Ed.): Matériaux philosophiques et scientifiques pour un matérialisme contemporain. Paris: Editions Matériologiques, chapter 8 (pp. 245-270). Link
2013 "Philosophie der Lebenswissenschaften. Entwicklungen und Tendenzen"
Common publication by the members of the DFG-supported network "Netzwerk Philosophie der Lebenswissenschaften". In: Information Philosophie, Jahrgang 2013, Heft 4, pp. 14-27. Link pdf
2014 "Similarités ontologiques et différences épistémologiques entre physique et biologie"
In: T. Hoquet and F. Merlin (eds.): Précis de philosophie de la biologie. Paris: Vuibert, chapter 5 (pp. 99-110). Link
Reviews & Commentaries 2006 Review on: Jaegwon Kim: Physicalism, or something near enough
(Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2005, 200 pages)
Dialectica, 60, Pp. 508-512. Link pdf
2007 Commentary on: Terry Horgan: “Mental causation and the agent-exclusion problem”
Erkenntnis 67 (2), pp. 201-205. Link pdf
2007 Review on: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger: Epistemologie des Konkreten. Studien zur Geschichte der modernen Biologie
(Frankfurt/Main: suhrkamp taschenbuch wissenschaft, 2006, 415 pages)
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 29 (2), pp. 242-244. Link pdf
2014 "The new puzzle of biological groups and individuals" Review/article on: Frédéric Bouchard und Philippe Huneman (Eds.): From groups to individuals. Evolution and emerging individuality.
(Cambridge (Massachusetts): MIT Press, 2013, 278 pages)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 46, pp. 117-120. Link pdf
2015 Commentary on: Jean Gayon: „De la portée des théories biologiques“
In: Thierry Martin (Ed.): Problèmes théoriques et pratiques en biologie évolutionniste. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté (PUFC). Link pdf
2015 Review on: Francesca Merlin: Mutations et aléas. Le hasard dans la théorie de l’évolution
(Paris: Hermann, 2013, 272 pages)
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 37, pp. 335-338. Link
2015 Review on: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger: Introduction à la philosophie des sciences
(Paris: La Découverte, 2014, 126 pages)
Gesnerus 72, pp. 348-350. Link