Emergence in context : a treatise in twenty-first century natural philosophy. /
"Science, philosophy of science, and metaphysics have long been concerned with the question of how novel things emerge. How can order come out of disorder? This book introduces a new account, contextual emergence, seeking to answer such questions."--Back cover.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Contextual Emergence
- 3 Intertheoretic Relations and Multiscale Modeling
- 4 Classical and Quantum Physics
- 5 Contextual Emergence in Condensed-Matter Physics
- 6 Contextual Emergence in Biology and Neuroscience
- 7 Ontological and Scientific Implications of Contextual Emergence