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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.
Cover; EMERGENCE; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Preamble; 1. Basic Features of Emergence; 1.1 Introduction; 1.1.1 The General Approach; 1.2 A General Strategy; 1.2.1 Method; 1.2.2 Models and Reality; 1.3 Generative Atomism; 1.3.1 An Aside on Eddington's Tables; 1.3.2 Generalizations; 1.4 Checkers World; 1.5 Atomism; 1.5.1 Immutability; 1.5.2 Indivisibility; 1.5.3 Distinguishability; 1.5.4 What Counts as an Atom?; 1.6 Criteria for Emergence; 1.6.1 The First Feature: Emergence Is Relational; 1.6.2 The Second and Third Features: Novelty and Autonomy; 1.6.3 Holism
1.7 A Taxonomy for Emergence1.7.1 Inferential Emergence: Emergence as Lack of Derivability; 1.7.2 Conceptual Emergence; 1.7.3 Ontological Emergence; 1.7.4 The Temporal Taxonomy; 1.8 Examples of Emergence; 1.9 Other Approaches to Emergence; 1.9.1 Emergence as Unexplainability; 1.9.2 Nomological Emergence; 1.9.3 Emergence as a Result of Essential Interactions; 1.9.4 Emergence as Undefinability; 1.10 The Rarity Heuristic; 2. Ontological Emergence; 2.1 Preliminaries; 2.1.1 A Prima Facie but Probably Not Genuine Example of Transformational Emergence; 2.2 Transformational Emergence
2.2.1 A Possible Example of Transformational Emergence2.3 Fusion Emergence; 2.3.1 The Money Example: Fusion Without Emergence; 2.3.2 The Probability Example: Failure of Supervenience Without Fusion; 2.3.3 The Representation of Fusion; 2.3.4 Defusion; 2.3.5 Examples; 2.4 Arguments Against Fusion Emergence; 2.5 The Origins of the Universe Argument; 3. Ancestors and Relatives; 3.1 J.S. Mill and C.D. Broad on Emergence; 3.2 Internal and External Relations; 3.2.1 G.E. Moore; 3.2.2 Lewis's Definitions; 3.2.3 Relationalism, Holism, and Interactions; 3.2.4 Appendix; 3.3 Levels
3.4 Downward Causation3.4.1 Cube World; 3.5 Holism, Contextualism, and Transformation; 3.5.1 Transformation Revisited; 3.5.2 Contextualism and Compositionality; 3.5.3 Generative Atomism Again; 4. Inferential Emergence; 4.1 A Definition; 4.2 Pattern Emergence; 4.2.1 Nonrandomness; 4.2.2 Self-​Organization; 4.2.3 Generation and Stability; 4.2.4 Pattern Emergence Need Not Be Discontinuous; 4.2.5 Pattern Emergence Is Historical; 4.2.6 Properties of Pattern Emergence; 4.2.7 Multiple Instantiability and Multiple Realizability; 4.3 Weak Emergence; 4.3.1 Illustrations: Bird Flocking and Traffic Jams
4.3.2 Assessment4.3.3 Weak Emergence as Explanatory Incompressibility; 4.3.4 Weak Emergence and Explanation; 5. Conceptual Emergence; 5.1 Conceptual Innovation; 5.2 Reduction and Construction; 5.2.1 A Turn to Ontology; 5.3 Philosophical Counterparts to Constructionism; 5.4 Functional Reduction; 6. Philosophical Topics Related to Emergence; 6.1 Physicalism; 6.1.1 Motivations for Physicalism; 6.1.2 Limit Physics; 6.2 Emergence as Supervenience; 6.2.1 Nomological Supervenience; 6.2.2 Why Use Supervenience?; 6.2.3 Supervenience Definitions; 6.2.4 Nomological or Logical Necessitation?
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016