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Emergence in Science and Philosophy.
The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions of the natural world continue to be hampered by imprecision or ambiguity. This title explores inadequacies in some formulations and arguments.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Colección: | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 6.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Introduction; Part I: Emergence General Perspectives; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1 The Secret Lives of Emergents; Chapter 2 On the Implications of Scientific Composition and Completeness: Or, The Troubles, and Troubles, of Non-Reductive Physicalism; Chapter 3 Weak Emergence and Context-Sensitive Reduction; Chapter 4 Two Varieties of Causal Emergentism; Chapter 5 The Emergence of Group Cognition; Part II: Self, Agency, and Free Will; Part II: Introduction; Chapter 6 Why My Body is Not Me: The Unity Argument for Emergentist Self-Body Dualism.
- Chapter 7 What About the Emergence of Consciousness Deserves Puzzlement?Chapter 8 The Emergence of Rational Souls; Chapter 9 Are Deliberations and Decisions Emergent, if Free?; Chapter 10 Is Emergentism Refuted by the Neurosciences?: The Case of Free Will; Part III: Physics, Mathematics, and the Special Sciences; Part III: Introduction; Chapter 11 Emergence in Physics; Chapter 12 The Emergence of the Intuition of Trut.