Paul Humphreys

Emergence

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Produktbeschreibung

Emergence develops a novel account of diachronic ontological emergence called transformational emergence and locates it in an established historical framework. The author shows how many problems affecting ontological emergence result from a dominant but inappropriate metaphysical tradition and provides a comprehensive assessment of current theories of emergence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 142mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780190620325
• ISBN-10: 0190620323
• Artikelnr.: 47868083

Autorenporträt

Paul Humphreys is Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy and co-Director of the Center for the Study of Data and Knowledge at the University of Virginia. Co-editor of the widely used collection Emergence: Contemporary Readings in Science and Philosophy, his current research interests include computational science, data analytics in science and the humanities, probability, causality, and explanation.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preamble
* 1. Basic Features of Emergence
* §1.0 Introduction
* §1.0.1 The General Approach
* §1.1 A General Strategy
* §1.1.1 Method
* §1.1.2 Models and Reality
* §1.2 Generative Atomism
* §1.2.1 An Aside on Eddington's Tables
* §1.2.2 Generalizations
* §1.3 Checkers World
* §1.4 Atomism
* §1.4.1 Immutability
* §1.4.2 Indivisibility
* §1.4.3 Distinguishability
* §1.4.4 What Counts as an Atom?
* §1.5 Criteria for Emergence
* §1.5.1 The First Feature: Emergence is Relational
* §1.5.2 The Second and Third Features: Novelty and Autonomy
* §1.5.3 Holism
* §1.6 A Taxonomy for Emergence
* §1.6.1 Inferential Emergence
* §1.6.2 Conceptual Emergence
* §1.6.3 Ontological Emergence
* §1.6.4 The Temporal Taxonomy
* §1.7 Examples of Emergence
* §1.8 Other Approaches to Emergence
* §1.8.1 Emergence as Unexplainability.
* §1.8.2 Nomological Emergence.
* §1.8.3 Emergence as a Result of Essential Interactions
* §1.8.4 Emergence as Non-Definability.
* §1.9 The Rarity Heuristic
* 2. Ontological Emergence
* §2.0 Ontological Emergence
* §2.1 Transformational Emergence
* §2.1.1 A Possible Example of Transformational Emergence
* §2.2 Fusion Emergence
* §2.2.1 The Money Example: Fusion without Emergence
* §2.2.2 The Probability Example: Failure of Supervenience without
Fusion
* §2.2.3 The Representation of Fusion
* §2.2.4 Defusion
* §2.2.5 Examples
* §2.3 Arguments Against Fusion
* §2.4 The Origins of the Universe Argument
* 3. Ancestors and Relatives
* §3.0 Mill and Broad on Emergence
* §3.1 Internal and External Relations
* §3.1.1 G.E. Moore
* §3.1.2 Lewis's Definitions
* §3.1.3 Relationism, Holism, and Interactions
* Appendix
* §3.2 Levels
* §3.3 Downward Causation
* §3.3.1 Cube World
* §3.4 Holism, Contextualism, and Transformation
* §3.4.1 Transformation Revisited
* §3.4.2 Contextualism and Compositionality
* §3.4.3 Generative Atomism Again
* 4. Inferential Emergence
* §4.0 A Definition
* §4.1 Pattern Emergence
* §4.1.1 Nonrandomness
* §4.1.2 Self-Organization
* §4.1.3 Generation and Stability
* §4.1.4 Pattern Emergence Need Not Be Discontinuous
* §4.1.5 Pattern Emergence is Historical
* §4.1.6 Properties of Pattern Emergence
* §4.1.7 Multiple Instantiability and Multiple Realizability
* §4.2 Weak Emergence
* §4.2.1 Illustrations: Bird Flocking and Traffic Jams
* §4.2.2 Assessment
* §4.2.3 Weak Emergence as Explanatory Incompressibility
* §4.2.4 Weak Emergence and Explanation
* 5. Conceptual Emergence
* §5.0 Conceptual Innovation
* §5.1 Reduction and Construction
* §5.1.1 A Turn to Ontology
* §5.2 Philosophical Counterparts to Constructionism
* §5.3 Functional Reduction
* 6. Philosophical Topics Related to Emergence
* §6.0 Physicalism
* § 6.0.1 Motivations for Physicalism
* § 6.0.2 Limit Physics
* §6.1 Emergence as Supervenience
* §6.1.1 Nomological Supervenience
* §6.1.2 Why Use Supervenience?
* §6.1.3 Supervenience Definitions
* §6.1.4 Nomological or Logical Necessitation?
* §6.1.5 Supervenience is Not Explanatory
* §6.1.6 Humean Supervenience
* §6.2 Fundamentality
* §6.3 Multiple Realizability
* §6.3.1 Token versus Type Identity
* §6.4 Compositionality and Aggregativity
* §6.4.1 A Suggested Amendment to the Nonaggregativity Approach
* §6.5 Emergence as Non-Structural Properties
* §6.5.1 The Relation of Nonstructural Properties to Transformational
Emergence
* §6.6 Properties and Objects
* 7. Scientific Topics Related to Emergence
* §7.0 An Example: Ferromagnetism
* §7.0.1 Basic Features of Ferromagnetism
* §7.0.2 The Status of Ferromagnetism as an Emergent Phenomenon
* §7.0.3 Models, Possibilities, and Actuality
* §7.1 Linearity, Nonlinearity, and Complexity Theory
* §7.1.1 Linearity
* §7.1.2 Complexity Theory
* §7.2 Dynamical Systems
* References
* Index