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The Mechanisms of Emergence
Emergentism is often imagined to be opposed to mechanism. If some phenomenon admits of mechanistic explanation, it is thought to be ipso facto not...
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Chemical reduction and quantum interpretation: A case for thomistic emergence
The debate between ontological reductionists and emergentists in chemistry has revolved around quantum mechanics. What Franklin and Seifert (BJPS...
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Appearance and Persistence as the Unity of Diachronic and Synchronic Concepts of Emergence
Recent philosophical discourse on emergence has developed with particular concern for the distinction between weak and strong emergence (e.g., Bedau
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Empirical Concepts: Their Meaning and its Emergence
This article presents a detailed, novel account of the emergence of (the meaning of) empirical concepts. Acquiring experience and empirical concepts...
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Diachronic Emergence as Transubstantiation
Diachronic emergence has recently been characterised as transformation. This aims to capture the thought that the entities that emerge are radically...
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As below, so before: ‘synchronic’ and ‘diachronic’ conceptions of spacetime emergence
Typically, a less fundamental theory, or structure, emerging from a more fundamental one is an example of synchronic emergence. A model (and the...
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Hierarchical Emergent Ontology and the Universal Principle of Emergence
This book offers a new look at emergence in terms of a hierarchical emergent ontology. Emergence is recognised as a universal principle, as universal...
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Emergence, Downward Causation, and Interlevel Integrative Explanations
In this article, I propose a unified account of systemic emergence, downward causation, and interlevel integrative explanations. First, I argue for a...
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Emergence, Continuity, and Scientific Realism
Scientific realism postulates that science aims for truth in both the domains of the observable and the unobservable, and is capable of achieving...
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Emergence in Physical Systems
This chapter continues with analyses of some approaches to ontological emergence inspired by physical processes. The studies show how purely...
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The emergence of the postgenomic gene
The identity and the existence of genes has been challenged by postgenomic discoveries. Specifically, the consideration of molecular and cellular...
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A mechanism that realizes strong emergence
The causal efficacy of a material system is usually thought to be produced by the law-like actions and interactions of its constituents. Here, a...
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Towards a Universal Principle of Emergence (UPE)
This chapter clarifies the essential theoretical background. In opposition to the prevailing diversification of the meaning of the concept of...
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Emergence within social systems
Emergence is typically discussed in the context of mental properties or the properties of the natural sciences, and accounts of emergence within...
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Similarity structure and diachronic emergence
I provide a formally precise account of diachronic emergence of properties as described within scientific theories, extending a recent account of...
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Ontological Emergence Without Vertical Causation
In this essay, I aim to address the two related problems faced by ontological emergence and propose a solution. First, I shall briefly outline the...
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The strong emergence of molecular structure
One of the most plausible and widely discussed examples of strong emergence is molecular structure. The only detailed account of it, which has been...
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Invariances in transformational emergence
This paper examines some possibilities for the laws of nature changing over time. This is done within the context of recent literature on...
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Jacob Schegk on Plants, Medicaments, and the Question of Emergence
The view that living beings as well as plant-based medicaments possess causal properties that are caused by the causal properties of their...
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Convexity and Monotonicity in Language Coordination: Simulating the Emergence of Semantic Universals in Populations of Cognitive Agents
Natural languages vary in their quantity expressions, but the variation seems to be constrained by general properties, so-called universals . Their...
