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Author(s): Mark A. Bedau, Paul Humphreys
ISBN(s): 9780262524759, 0262524759
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Year: 2008
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ISBN 10: 0262524759

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Author: Mark A. Bedau, Paul Humphreys

Contemporary classics on the the major approaches to emergence found in contemporary philosophy and science, with chapters by such prominent scholars as John Searle, Stephen Weinberg, William Wimsatt, Thomas Schelling, Jaegwon Kim, Daniel Dennett, Herbert Simon, Stephen Wolfram, Jerry Fodor, Philip Anderson, David Chalmers, and others.

Emergence, largely ignored just thirty years ago, has become one of the liveliest areas of research in both philosophy and science. Fueled by advances in complexity theory, artificial life, physics, psychology, sociology, and biology and by the parallel development of new conceptual tools in philosophy, the idea of emergence offers a way to understand a wide variety of complex phenomena in ways that are intriguingly different from more traditional approaches. This reader collects for the first time in one easily accessible place classic writings on emergence from contemporary philosophy and science. The chapters, by such prominent scholars as John Searle, Stephen Weinberg, William Wimsatt, Thomas Schelling, Jaegwon Kim, Robert Laughlin, Daniel Dennett, Herbert Simon, Stephen Wolfram, Jerry Fodor, Philip Anderson, and David Chalmers, cover the major approaches to emergence. Each of the three sections (“Philosophical Perspectives,” “Scientific Perspectives,” and “Background and Polemics”) begins with an introduction putting the chapters into context and posing key questions for further exploration. A bibliography lists more specialized material, and an associated website (http://mitpress.mit.edu/emergence) links to downloadable software and to other sites and publications about emergence.

Table of contents:

Part I: Philosophical Perspectives on Emergence

  • Introduction to Philosophical Perspectives on Emergence

  • Chapter 1: The Rise and Fall of British Emergentism

  • Chapter 2: On the Idea of Emergence

  • Chapter 3: Reductionism and the Irreducibility of Consciousness

  • Chapter 4: Emergence and Supervenience

  • Chapter 5: Aggregativity: Reductive Heuristics for Finding Emergence

  • Chapter 6: How Properties Emerge

  • Chapter 7: Making Sense of Emergence

  • Chapter 8: Downward Causation and Autonomy in Weak Emergence

  • Chapter 9: Real Patterns

Part II: Scientific Perspectives on Emergence

  • Introduction to Scientific Perspectives on Emergence

  • Chapter 10: More is Different: Broken Symmetry and the Nature of the Hierarchical Structure of Science

  • Chapter 11: Emergence

  • Chapter 12: Sorting and Mixing: Race and Sex

  • Chapter 13: Alternative Views of Complexity

  • Chapter 14: The Theory of Everything

  • Chapter 15: Is Anything Ever New? Considering Emergence

  • Chapter 16: Design, Observation, Surprise! A Test of Emergence

  • Chapter 17: Ansatz for Dynamical Hierarchies

Part III: Background and Polemics

  • Introduction to Background and Polemics

  • Chapter 18: Newtonianism, Reductionism and the Art of Congressional Testimony

  • Chapter 19: Issues in the Logic of Reductive Explanations

  • Chapter 20: Chaos

  • Chapter 21: Undecidability and Intractability in Theoretical Physics

  • Chapter 22: Special Sciences (Or: The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis)

  • Chapter 23: Supervenience

  • Chapter 24: The Nonreductivist’s Troubles with Mental Causation

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