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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