1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Emergence

Edited By Sophie Gibb, Robin Findlay Hendry, Tom Lancaster Copyright 2019
436 Pages
by Routledge

434 Pages
by Routledge

434 Pages
by Routledge

Emergence is often described as the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts: interactions among the components of a system lead to distinctive novel properties. It has been invoked to describe the flocking of birds, the phases of matter and human consciousness, along with many other phenomena. Since the nineteenth century, the notion of emergence has been widely applied in... Read more

Introduction Robin Findlay Hendry, Sophie Gibb, and Tom Lancaster  Part 1: Foundations of Emergence  1. British Emergentism Brian P. McLaughlin  2. Dependence Paul Noordhof  3. Fundamentality Kerry McKenzie  4. Reduction John Bickle  5. Emergence, function and realization Umut Baysan  6. Strong emergence and Alexander's dictum Alex Carruth  7. Emergence, downward causation and its alternatives: critically surveying a foundational issue Carl Gillett  8. The causal closure principle Sophie Gibb  9. Computational emergence: weak and strong Mark Pexton  10. Being Emergence vs. Pattern Emergence: Complexity, Control and Goal-Directedness in Biological Systems Jason Winning and William Bechtel  11. Complexity and feedback Robert Bishop and Michael Silberstein  12. Between Scientism and Abstractionism in the Metaphysics of Emergence Jessica Wilson  Part 2: Emergence and Mind  13. Emergent Dualism in the Philosophy of Mind Hong Yu Wong  14. Emergent mental causation David Robb  15. Emergence and Non-Reductive Physicalism Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald  16. Intentionality and Emergence Lynne Rudder Baker  17. Emergence and consciousness Robert Van Gulick  18. Emergence and panpsychism John Heil  Part 3: Emergence and Physics  19. Phase transitions, broken symmetry and the renormalization group Stephen J. Blundell  20. Soft Matter – An Emergent Interdisciplinary Science of Emergent Entities Tom McLeish  21. Emergence in Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics Stewart Clark and Iorwerth Thomas  22. The emergence of excitations in quantum fields: quasiparticles and topological objects Tom Lancaster  23. Emergence: a personal perspective on a new paradigm for scientific research David Pines  24. Emergence and Reductionism: an awkward Baconian alliance Piers Coleman  25. The emergence of space and time Christian Wüthrich  Part 4: Emergence and the Special Sciences  26. Digital Emergence Susan Stepney  27. Emergence in Chemistry: Substance and Structure Robin Findlay Hendry  28. Emergence in Biology: From Organicism to Systems Biology Emily Herring and Gregory Radick  29. Emergence in the cell Michel Morange  30. Evolution, Information and Emergence George Ellis  31. A-mergence of biological systems Raymond Noble and Denis Noble  32. Emergence in the Social Sciences Julie Zahle and Tuukka Kaidesoja.

Biography

Sophie Gibb is a Professor and Head of Department in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University, UK.





Robin Hendry is a Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University, UK.





Tom Lancaster is a Professor in the Department of Physics at Durham University, UK.