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Sixteen Years Later: Making Sense of Emergence (Again) Olivier Sartenaer1 Published online: 9 August 2015 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 Abstract Sixteen years after Kim's seminal paper offering a welcomed analysis of the emergence concept, I propose in this paper a needed extension of Kim's work that does
Sixteen years after Kim’s seminal paper offering a welcomed analysis of the emergence concept, I propose in this paper a needed extension of Kim’s work that does more justice to the actual diversity of emergentism.
- Olivier Sartenaer
- 2016
- Representational and Causal Emergence
- Theoretical and Explanatory Emergence
- Summary: A Taxonomy of Emergence
Presuming it is necessary to conciliate a certain form F 1 of monism with another form F 2 of pluralism in order to consistently meet the emergentist unity principle—and hence to be an emergentist—, identifying the available emergentist strategies requires one to distinguish between different kinds of monism and pluralism and to assess their mutual...
It is now possible to expand this first taxonomy by distinguishing—within the scope of non-reductiveR physicalism—between sub-types of representational emergence. The further distinction I propose to draw is based on the difference between derivational and functional models of representational reduction. Whereas the first model can be traced back t...
At this point, before turning to the next section, which is more directly dedicated to the prime objective of this paper, it may be helpful to summarize what has been said so far. From what has been considered to be the unity of emergentism—namely constituting a middle course between radical monism and pluralism through the conciliation of the cont...
- Olivier Sartenaer
- olivier.sartenaer@uclouvain.be
- 2016
Olivier Sartenaer1. Published online: 9 August 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015. Abstract. Sixteen years after Kim’s seminal paper offering a welcomed analysis of the emergence concept, I propose in this paper a needed extension of Kim’s work that does more justice to the actual diversity of emergentism.
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