Emergence : contemporary readings in philosophy and science /

This reader collects in one easy, accessible place, classic writings on emergence from contemporary philosophy and science. This title includes contributions from the likes of John Searle, Stephen Weinberg, Thomas Schelling, Stephen Wolfram and Jenny Fodor.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bedau, Mark, Humphreys, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Colección:Bradford book.
Temas:
Emergence (Philosophy)
Science > Philosophy.
Émergence (Philosophie)
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Science > Philosophy
Emergenzphilosophie
Wissenschaftstheorie
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General
PHILOSOPHY/General
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 [and others]
  • 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 [and others]
  • 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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