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Toward a Pragmatically Naturalist Metaphysics of the Fact-Value Entanglement: Emergence or Continuity?
Pragmatists, early and late, have heavily criticized the so-called fact-value dichotomy. Hilary Putnam (1990, 1994, 2002a, 2004a), in particular,...
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Processual Emergentism
The turn of the twenty-first century was a period of intensified research on the description of the world as a complex structure built of dynamical...
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Does Organicism Really Need Organization?
The main purpose of the present chapter is to argue in favor of the claim that, contrary to what is usually and tacitly assumed, organization is not...
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Temporalizing ontology: a case for pragmatic emergence
Despite an attempt to break with the hierarchical picture in traditional emergentist thought, non-standard accounts of emergence are often still...
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Integrated-structure emergence and its mechanistic explanation
This paper proposes an integrated-structure notion of interlevel (part-whole) emergence, from a dynamic relational ontological perspective. First, I...
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The Emergence of the Cartesian Self
In the previous chapters, I showed that the traditional separatist interpretation of Cartesian mind-body dualism should be rejected because it is not...
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Emergentism in the biological framework: the case of fitness
In this paper, I aim to explore whether fitness, understood as a causal disposition, can be characterized as an emergent property of organisms, or if...
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Hierarchical Emergent Ontology (HEO)
This chapter is devoted to formulating a universal principle of emergence (UPE) within the hierarchical emergent ontology (HEO) framework and testing...
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Causal Explanations
Views on the nature of causation are considered. It is argued that we need one that avoids certain metaphysical posits as universal regularities,...
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Two-step emergence: the quantum theory of atoms in molecules as a bridge between quantum mechanics and molecular chemistry
By moving away from the traditional reductionist reading of the quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM), in this paper we analyze the role...
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A Kantian-Rooted Pluralist Realism for Science
After the preeminence of logical positivism/empiricism during the most part of twentieth century, during the last decades many authors began to...
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The first words ever spoken
I argue that ontologies of words should engage with the emergence of lexical communication in the deep history of our line. It may seem that the...
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Towards a theory of emergence for the physical sciences
I begin to develop a framework for emergence in the physical sciences. Namely, I propose to explicate ontological emergence in terms of the notion of...
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Response to Part IV: The Debate on Top-Down Causation and Emergence
In this response, George Ellis comments on the publications of Part IV. He responds first to James Woodward, Richard Healey, Jan Voosholz, Simon...
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Physics, Determinism, and the Brain
This chapter responds to claims that causal closure of the underlying microphysics determines brain outcomes as a matter of principle, even if we...
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On the causal arguments for physicalism
In his paper, “A Causal Argument for Physicalism” (Zhong, 2023), Zhong presents a novel argument for non-reductive physicalism (which he calls “A2”),...
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On the Ontological Status of Molecular Structure: Is it Possible to Reconcile Molecular Chemistry with Quantum Mechanics?
According to classical molecular chemistry, molecules have a structure, that is, they are sets of atoms with a definite arrangements in space and...
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Emergentist Integrated Information Theory
The integrated information theory (IIT) is an ambitious theory of consciousness that aims to provide both a neuroscientific and a metaphysical...
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Life-mind continuity: untangling categorical, extensional, and systematic aspects
In this paper, I argue that current attempts at classifying life–mind continuity (LMC) feature several important ambiguities. We can resolve these...