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Emergence : contemporary readings in philosophy and science / edited by Mark A. Bedau and Paul Humphreys.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: xv, 464 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 026202621X
  • 9780262026215
  • 0262524759
  • 9780262524759
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 501 22
LOC classification:
  • Q175.32.E44 E44 2008
Contents:
pt. 1. Philosophical perspectives on emergence -- The rise and fall of British emergentism / Brian P. McLaughlin -- On the idea of emergence / Carl Hempel and Paul Oppenheim -- Reductionism and the irreducibility of consciousness / John Searle -- Emergence and supervenience / Brian P. McLaughlin -- Aggregativity : reductive heuristics for finding emergence / William C. Wimsatt -- How properties emerge / Paul Humphreys -- Making sense of emergence / Jaegwon Kim -- Downward causation and autonomy in weak emergence / Mark A. Bedau -- Real patterns / Daniel C. Dennett -- pt. 2. Scientific perspectives on emergence -- More is different : broken symmetry and the nature of the hierarchical structure of science / P. W. Anderson -- Emergence / Andrew Assad and Norman H. Packard -- Sorting and mixing : race and sex / Thomas Schelling -- Alternative views of complexity / Herbert Simon -- The theory of everything / Robert B. Laughlin and David Pines -- Is anything ever new? Considering emergence / James P. Crutchfield -- Design, observation, surprise! A test of emergence / Edmund M. A. Ronald, Moshe Sipper, and Mathieu S. Capcarrère -- Ansatz for dynamical hierarchies / Steen Rasmussen ... [et al.] -- pt. 3. Background and polemics -- Newtonianism, reductionism, and the art of Congressional testimony / Stephen Weinberg -- Issues in the logic of reductive explanations / Ernest Nagel -- Chaos / James P. Crutchfield ... [et al.] -- Undecidability and intractability in theoretical physics / Stephen Wolfram -- Special sciences (Or : The disunity of science as a working hypothesis) / Jerry Fodor -- Supervenience / David Chalmers -- The nonreductivist's troubles with mental causation / Jaegwon Kim.
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"A Bradford book.".

Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-454) and index.

pt. 1. Philosophical perspectives on emergence -- The rise and fall of British emergentism / Brian P. McLaughlin -- On the idea of emergence / Carl Hempel and Paul Oppenheim -- Reductionism and the irreducibility of consciousness / John Searle -- Emergence and supervenience / Brian P. McLaughlin -- Aggregativity : reductive heuristics for finding emergence / William C. Wimsatt -- How properties emerge / Paul Humphreys -- Making sense of emergence / Jaegwon Kim -- Downward causation and autonomy in weak emergence / Mark A. Bedau -- Real patterns / Daniel C. Dennett -- pt. 2. Scientific perspectives on emergence -- More is different : broken symmetry and the nature of the hierarchical structure of science / P. W. Anderson -- Emergence / Andrew Assad and Norman H. Packard -- Sorting and mixing : race and sex / Thomas Schelling -- Alternative views of complexity / Herbert Simon -- The theory of everything / Robert B. Laughlin and David Pines -- Is anything ever new? Considering emergence / James P. Crutchfield -- Design, observation, surprise! A test of emergence / Edmund M. A. Ronald, Moshe Sipper, and Mathieu S. Capcarrère -- Ansatz for dynamical hierarchies / Steen Rasmussen ... [et al.] -- pt. 3. Background and polemics -- Newtonianism, reductionism, and the art of Congressional testimony / Stephen Weinberg -- Issues in the logic of reductive explanations / Ernest Nagel -- Chaos / James P. Crutchfield ... [et al.] -- Undecidability and intractability in theoretical physics / Stephen Wolfram -- Special sciences (Or : The disunity of science as a working hypothesis) / Jerry Fodor -- Supervenience / David Chalmers -- The nonreductivist's troubles with mental causation / Jaegwon Kim.

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