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Emergence : contemporary readings in philosophy and science
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
2008.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 [and others]
- 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 [and others]
- 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.