Emergence : a philosophical account / Paul Humphreys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Humphreys, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergence (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 288 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Philosophical account

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

'Emergence' develops a novel account of diachronic ontological emergence called transformational emergence and locates it in an established historical framework. The author shows how many problems affecting ontological emergence result from a dominant but inappropriate metaphysical tradition and provides a comprehensive assessment of current theories of emergence.

Contents:

1 Basic features of emergence. 1.1 Introduction ; 1.2 A general strategy ; 1.3 Generative atomism ; 1.4 Checkers World ; 1.5 Atomism ; 1.6 Criteria for emergence ; 1.7 A taxonomy for emergence ; 1.8 Examples of emergence ; 1.9 Other approaches to emergence ; 1.10 The Rarity Heuristic

2 Ontological emergence. 2.1 Preliminaries ; 2.2 Transformational emergence ; 2.3 Fusion emergence ; 2.4 Arguments against fusion emergence ; 2.5 The origins of the universe argument

3 Ancestors and relatives. 3.1 J.S. Mill and C.D. Broad on emergence ; 3.2 Internal and external relations ; 3.3 Levels ; 3.4 Downward causation ; 3.5 Holism, contextualism, and transformation

4 Inferentiale emergence. 4.1 A definition ; 4.2 Pattern emergence ; 4.3 Weak emergence

5 Conceptual emergence. 5.1 Conceptual innovation ; 5.2 Reduction and construction ; 5.3 Philosophical counterparts to constructionism ; 5.4 Functional reduction

6 Philosophical topics related to emergence. 6.1 Physicalism ; 6.2 Emergence as supervenience ; 6.3 Fundamentality ; 6.4 Multiple realizability ; 6.5 Compositionality and aggregativity ; 6.6 Emergence as nonstructural properties ; 6.7 Properties and objects

7 Scientific topics related to emergence. 7.1 An example: Ferromagnetism ; 7.2 Linearity, nonlinearity, and complexity ; 7.3 Dynamical systems.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-062034-X

0-19-062035-8

0-19-062033-1