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Title

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

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Bedau, Mark.
• Humphreys, Paul.

Description

xv, 464 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Emergence (Philosophy)
• Science > Philosophy

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and (p. [447]-454) index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 08-3993

ISBN

• 9780262026215 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 026202621X (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780262524759 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0262524759 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007000949

OCLC

79002063

Title

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

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and (p. [447]-454) index.

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Table of contents only

Added Author

Bedau, Mark.

Humphreys, Paul.

Research Call Number

JFE 08-3993