Emergence: Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science by Mark A. Bedau (Editor), Paul Humphreys (Editor)

Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
Sources     xiii
Introduction     1
Philosophical Perspectives on Emergence     7
Introduction to Philosophical Perspectives on Emergence
The Rise and Fall of British Emergentism   Brian P. McLaughlin     19
On the Idea of Emergence   Carl Hempel   Paul Oppenheim     61
Reductionism and the Irreducibility of Consciousness   John Searle     69
Emergence and Supervenience   Brian P. McLaughlin     81
Aggregativity: Reductive Heuristics for Finding Emergence   William C. Wimsatt     99
How Properties Emerge   Paul Humphreys     111
Making Sense of Emergence   Jaegwon Kim     127
Downward Causation and Autonomy in Weak Emergence   Mark A. Bedau     155
Real Patterns   Daniel C. Dennett     189
Scientific Perspectives on Emergence     207
Introduction to Scientific Perspectives on Emergence
More Is Different: Broken Symmetry and the Nature of the Hierarchical Structure of Science   P. W. Anderson     221
Emergence   Andrew Assad   Norman H. Packard     231
Sorting and Mixing: Race andSex   Thomas Schelling     235
Alternative Views of Complexity   Herbert Simon     249
The Theory of Everything   Robert B. Laughlin   David Pines     259
Is Anything Ever New? Considering Emergence   James P. Crutchfield     269
Design, Observation, Surprise! A Test of Emergence   Edmund M. A. Ronald   Moshe Sipper   Mathieu S. Capcarrere     287
Ansatz for Dynamical Hierarchies   Steen Rasmussen   Nils A. Baas   Bernd Mayer   Martin Nillson     305
Background and Polemics     335
Introduction to Background and Polemics
Newtonianism, Reductionism, and the Art of Congressional Testimony   Stephen Weinberg     345
Issues in the Logic of Reductive Explanations   Ernest Nagel     359
Chaos   James P. Crutchfield   J. Doyne Farmer   Norman H. Packard   Robert S. Shaw     375
Undecidability and Intractability in Theoretical Physics   Stephen Wolfram     387
Special Sciences (Or: The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis)   Jerry Fodor     395
Supervenience   David Chalmers     411
The Nonreductivist's Troubles with Mental Causation   Jaegwon Kim     427
Annotated Bibliography     447
About the Authors     455
Index     459