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Emergence: Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science

Emergence: Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science

Humphreys, Paul
Bedau, Mark A.

Paperback

BiologyHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 0262524759
ISBN13: 9780262524759
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Apr 1 2008
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.62
Height: 0.84 Width: 7.03 Depth: 8.82
Language: English
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.

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