Title Emergence or reduction? : essays on the prospects of nonreductive physicalism / edited by Ansgar Beckermann, Hans Flohr, Jaegwon Kim

Edition Library ed Published Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (315 pages) : illustrations Series Grundlagen der Kommunikation und Kognition = Foundations of communication and cognition Foundations of communication and cognition. Contents Introduction â€? Reductive and Nonreductive Physicalism -- Part I -- Emergence â€? A Systematic View on its Historical Facets -- The Rise and Fall of British Emergentism -- Supervenience, Emergence, and Reduction -- “Downward Causationâ€? in Emergentism and Non-reductive Physicalism -- A Contemporary Look at Emergence -- Part II -- Nonreductive Materialism and the Nature of Intertheoretical Constraint -- Subjectivity and Knowing What Itâ€?s Like -- Physiology, Phenomenology, and Spinozaâ€?s True Colors -- Qualia and Brain Processes -- Part III Understanding ComplexityEmergent Phenomena and Complex Systems -- On the Way to a Theory of Antireductionist Arguments -- Name Index -- Subject Index Notes "Most of the papers included in this volume were originally presented at a conference ... held in Oct. 1990, at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld, Germany."--Preface Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Subject Logical positivism -- Congresses Reductionism -- Congresses PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General. Logical positivism Reductionism Genre/Form proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Beckermann, Ansgar, 1945- Flohr, H. (Hans), 1936- Kim, Jaegwon ISBN 9783110870084 3110870088

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