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

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Bedau, Mark.
• Humphreys, Paul.

Series:

• Bradford book
• A Bradford book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Emergence (Philosophy).
• Science--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 464 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

• I Philosophical Perspectives on Emergence 7
• 1 The Rise and Fall of British Emergentism / Brian P. McLaughlin 19
• 2 On the Idea of Emergence / Carl Hempel, Paul Oppenheim 61
• 3 Reductionism and the Irreducibility of Consciousness / John Searle 69
• 4 Emergence and Supervenience / Brian P. McLaughlin 81
• 5 Aggregativity: Reductive Heuristics for Finding Emergence / William C. Wimsatt 99
• 6 How Properties Emerge / Paul Humphreys 111
• 7 Making Sense of Emergence / Jaegwon Kim 127
• 8 Downward Causation and Autonomy in Weak Emergence / Mark A. Bedau 155
• 9 Real Patterns / Daniel C. Dennett 189
• II Scientific Perspectives on Emergence 207
• 10 More Is Different: Broken Symmetry and the Nature of the Hierarchical Structure of Science / P. W. Anderson 221
• 11 Emergence / Andrew Assad, Norman H. Packard 231
• 12 Sorting and Mixing: Race and Sex / Thomas Schelling 235
• 13 Alternative Views of Complexity / Herbert Simon 249
• 14 The Theory of Everything / Robert B. Laughlin, David Pines 259
• 15 Is Anything Ever New? Considering Emergence / James P. Crutchfield 269
• 16 Design, Observation, Surprise! A Test of Emergence / Edmund M. A. Ronald, Moshe Sipper, Mathieu S. Capcarrere 287
• 17 Ansatz for Dynamical Hierarchies / Steen Rasmussen, Nils A. Baas, Bernd Mayer, Martin Nillson 305
• III Background and Polemics 335
• 18 Newtonianism, Reductionism, and the Art of Congressional Testimony / Stephen Weinberg 345
• 19 Issues in the Logic of Reductive Explanations / Ernest Nagel 359
• 20 Chaos / James P. Crutchfield, J. Doyne Farmer, Norman H. Packard, Robert S. Shaw 375
• 21 Undecidability and Intractability in Theoretical Physics / Stephen Wolfram 387
• 22 Special Sciences (Or: The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis) / Jerry Fodor 395
• 23 Supervenience / David Chalmers 411
• 24 The Nonreductivist's Troubles with Mental Causation / Jaegwon Kim 427.

Notes:

• "A Bradford book."
• OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

• 9781435640740
• 1435640748
• 0262268019
• 9780262268011

OCLC:

221646764

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