The Question of Emergence
This book takes the relationship between physics and sociology as its subject, focusing on the philosophical dispute between emergentism and reductionism. It argues that the mystery behind emergence disappears when we abandon the lawful understanding of causality in favor of a powers view. Adopting...
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| description | This book takes the relationship between physics and sociology as its subject, focusing on the philosophical dispute between emergentism and reductionism. It argues that the mystery behind emergence disappears when we abandon the lawful understanding of causality in favor of a powers view. Adopting a critical realist perspective, it offers a completely novel approach, arguing that the mystery associated with emergence is an artifact of the Humean covering law model of causality assumed by both sides of the reductionism and emergentist debate. In this debate, both reductionists and emergentists have focused on how a single whole or composite relates to its parts and have commonly operated with an understanding of causality in terms of lawful regularities among events. As a result, emergentists have been left with a dilemma: Either admit that laws governing higher-level behavior can be explained by lower-level laws, which is reductionism, or leave the existence of the higher-level laws a mystery. The first book-length publication that addresses – and attempts to resolve – the debate over emergence and reductionism and that gives attention to emergence across the ontological levels from physics to social behavior, it will have a lively readership among critical realists. It will also be of interest to philosophers of mind, philosophers of science, social scientists, and theoretically oriented practitioners in chemistry, biology, and psychology. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1696852025-12-02T05:04:03Z The Question of Emergence Porpora, Douglas V. metaphysics philosophy of mind philosophy of science chemistry physics biology psychology social science sociology particles behaviour emergence emergentist reductionism reductionist Hume causal logic ontology thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTM Philosophy of mind thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBA Social theory thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PN Chemistry thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTJ Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTL Philosophy: logic This book takes the relationship between physics and sociology as its subject, focusing on the philosophical dispute between emergentism and reductionism. It argues that the mystery behind emergence disappears when we abandon the lawful understanding of causality in favor of a powers view. Adopting a critical realist perspective, it offers a completely novel approach, arguing that the mystery associated with emergence is an artifact of the Humean covering law model of causality assumed by both sides of the reductionism and emergentist debate. In this debate, both reductionists and emergentists have focused on how a single whole or composite relates to its parts and have commonly operated with an understanding of causality in terms of lawful regularities among events. As a result, emergentists have been left with a dilemma: Either admit that laws governing higher-level behavior can be explained by lower-level laws, which is reductionism, or leave the existence of the higher-level laws a mystery. The first book-length publication that addresses – and attempts to resolve – the debate over emergence and reductionism and that gives attention to emergence across the ontological levels from physics to social behavior, it will have a lively readership among critical realists. It will also be of interest to philosophers of mind, philosophers of science, social scientists, and theoretically oriented practitioners in chemistry, biology, and psychology. 2025-12-02T05:03:58Z 2025-12-02T05:03:58Z 2025-12-01T12:14:39Z 2025 book ONIX_20251201T131047_9781040759585_13 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/108787 9781040759585 9781003649595 9781040759653 9781041093411 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/169685 eng Routledge Studies in Critical Realism open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/108787/1/9781040759585.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003649595 10.4324/9781003649595 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781040759585 9781003649595 9781040759653 9781041093411 Routledge 148 Oxford open access |
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