| Preface
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| Acknowledgments | xi |
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| Sources | xiii |
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| Introduction
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| I | Philosophical Perspectives on Emergence | 7 |
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| Introduction to Philosophical Perspectives on Emergence | |
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| 1 | The Rise and Fall of British Emergentism
Brian P. McLaughlin | 19 |
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| 2 | On the Idea of Emergence
Carl Hempel and Paul Oppenheim | 61 |
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| 3 | Reductionism and the Irreducibility of Consciousness
John R. Searle | 69 |
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| 4 | Emergence and Supervenience
Brian P. McLaughlin | 81 |
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| 5 | Aggregativity: Reductive Heuristics for Finding Emergence
William C. Wimsatt | 99 |
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| 6 | How Properties Emerge
Paul Humphreys | 111 |
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| 7 | Making Sense of Emergence
Jaegwon Kim | 127 |
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| 8 | Downward Causation and Autonomy in Weak Emergence
Mark A. Bedau | 155 |
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| 9 | Real Patterns
Daniel C. Dennett | 189 |
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| II | Scientific Perspectives on Emergence | 207 |
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| Introduction to Scientific Perspectives on Emergence | |
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| 10 | More Is Different: Broken Symmetry and the Nature of the Hierarchical Structure of Science
P. W. Anderson | 221 |
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| Emergence
Andrew Assad and Norman H. Packard | 231 |
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| 12 | Sorting and Mixing: Race and Sex
Thomas Schelling | 235 |
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| 13 | Alternative Views of Complexity
Herbert Simon | 249 |
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| 14 | The Theory of Everything
Robert B. Laughlin and Davide Pines | 259 |
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| 15 | Is Anything Ever New? Considering Emergence
James P. Crutchfield | 269 |
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| 16 | Design, Observation, Surprise! A Test of Emergence
Edmund M. A. Ronald, Moshe Sipper and Mathieu S. Capcarrčre | 287 |
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| 17 | Ansatz for Dynamical Hierarchies
Steen Rasmussen, Nils A. Baas, Bernd Mayer and Martin Nillson | 305 |
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| III | Background and Polemics | 335 |
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| 18 | Newtonianism, Reductionism, and the Art of Congressional Testimony
Stephen Weinberg | 345 |
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| 19 | Issues in the Logic of Reductive Explanations
Ernest Nagel | 359 |
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| 20 | Chaos
James P. Crutchfield, J. Doyne Farmer, Norman H. Packard and Robert S. Shaw | 375 |
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| 21 | Undecidability and Intractability in Theoretical Physics
Stephen Wolfram | 387 |
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| 22 | Special Sciences (Or: The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis)
Jerry Fodor | 395 |
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| 23 | Supervenience
David J. Chalmers | 411 |
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| 24 | The Nonreductivist’'s Troubles with Mental Causation
Jaegwon Kim | 427 |
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| Annotated Bibliography | 447 |
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| About the Authors
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| Index
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