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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Bedau; Paul Humphreys |
| ISBN: | 9780262026215 026202621X 9780262524759 0262524759 |
| OCLC Number: | 79002063 |
| Notes: | "A Bradford book." |
| Description: | xv, 464 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Mark A. Bedau and Paul Humphreys. |
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