Emergence in Mind

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-958362-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 614 g

Reihe: Mind Association Occasional Series

The idea of emergence may be a key tool to understanding the workings of the universe
Eminent team of contributors
All essays published here for the first time

There have long been controversies about how it is that minds can fit into a physical universe. Emergence in Mind presents new essays by a distinguished group of philosophers investigating whether mental properties can be said to 'emerge' from the physical processes in the universe. Such emergence requires mental properties to be different from physical properties, and much of the discussion relates to what the consequences of such a difference might be in areas such as freedom of the will, and the possibility of scientific explanations of non-physical (for example, social) phenomena. The volume also extends the debate about emergence by considering the independence of chemical properties from physical properties, and investigating what would need to be the case for there to be groups that could be said to exercise rationality.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and advanced students of philosophy

Autoren/Hrsg.

Macdonald, Cynthia

Macdonald, Graham

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald: Introduction
2: Tim Crane: Cosmic Hermeneutics vs. Emergence: The Challenge of the Explanatory Gap.
3: Michele Di Francesco: Explanation, Emergence and Causality: Comments on Crane.
4: Timothy O'Connor and John Ross Churchill: Is Nonreductive Physicalism Viable Within a Causal Powers Metaphysic?
5: Stephan Leuenberger: Exclusion and Physicalism: Comments on O'Connor and Churchill.
6: Paul Noordhof: Emergent Causation and Property Causation.
7: Simone Gozzano: Emergence: Laws and Properties: Comments On Noordhof.
8: Peter Menzies and Christian List: The Causal Autonomy of the Special Sciences.
9: Ausonio Marras and Juhani Yli-Vakkuri: Causal and Explanatory Autonomy: A Reply to Menzies and List.
10: Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald: Emergence and Downward Causation.
11: Peter Wyss: Identity With a Difference: Comments on Macdonald and Macdonald.
12: David Papineau: Can Any Sciences Be Special?
13: Michael Esfeld: Can Any Sciences be Special? Comment on Papineau.
14: Robin Findlay Hendry: Emergence vs. Reduction in Chemistry.
15: Achim Stephan: An Emergentist's Perspective on the Problem of Free Will.
16: Max Kistler: Strong Emergence and Freedom: Comment on A. Stephan.
17: Philip Pettit: Rationality, Reasoning and Group Agency.

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Cynthia Macdonald, Queen's University, Belfast, and Graham Macdonald, Queen's University, Belfast and University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Contributors:
John Ross Churchill, Indiana University
Tim Crane, University of Cambridge
Michele Di Francesco, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele of Milan
Michael Esfeld, University of Lausanne
Simone Gozzano, Università di L'Aquila-Italy
Robin Findlay Hendry, Durham University
Max Kistler, Université Pierre Mendès France
Stephan Leuenberger, University of Glasgow
Christian List, London School of Economics
Cynthia Macdonald, Queen's University Belfast
Graham Macdonald, Queen's University Belfast
Ausonio Marras, University of Western Ontario
Peter Menzies, Macquarie University, Sydney
Paul Noordhof, University of York
Timothy O'Connor, Indiana University
David Papineau, King's College London
Philip Pettit, Princeton University
Achim Stephan, University of Osnabrück
Peter Wyss, Birkbeck College Londo
Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, University of Oxford