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Subject(s)

• Logical positivism—Congresses [Browse]
• Reductionism—Congresses [Browse]

Related name

• Beckermann, Ansgar, 1945- [Browse]
• Flohr, H. (Hans), 1936- [Browse]
• Kim, Jaegwon [Browse]

Series

• Foundations of communication and cognition. [More in this series]
• Grundlagen der Kommunikation und Kognition = Foundations of communication and cognition

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."--Pref.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language note

English

Contents

• Front matter
• Reductive and Nonreductive Physicalism / BECKERMANN, ANSGAR
• Part I
• Emergence - A Systematic View on its Historical Facets / STEPHAN, ACHIM
• The Rise and Fall of British Emergentism / MCLAUGHLIN, BRIAN P.
• Supervenience, Emergence, and Reduction / BECKERMANN, ANSGAR
• "Downward Causation" in Emergentism and Nonreductive Physicalism / KIM, JAEGWON
• A Contemporary Look at Emergence / TELLER, PAUL
• Part II
• Nonreductive Materialism and the Nature of Intertheoretical Constraint / GULICK, ROBERT VAN
• Subjectivity and Knowing What It's Like / TELLER, PAUL
• Physiology, Phenomenology, and Spinoza's True Colors / HARDIN, CLYDE L.
• Qualia and Brain Processes / FLOHR, HANS
• Part III
• Understanding Complexity / KÜPPERS, BERND-OLAF
• Emergent Phenomena and Complex Systems / BECHTEL, WILLIAM / RICHARDSON, ROBERT C.
• On the Way to a Theory of Antireductionist Arguments / HOYNINGEN-HUENE, PAUL
• Name Index
• Subject Index

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ISBN

3-11-087008-8

OCLC

• 922945412
• 979628200

Doi

• 10.1515/9783110870084

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