Emergence : towards a new metaphysics and philosophy of science /

Tabaczek, Mariusz, 1980-

Emergence : towards a new metaphysics and philosophy of science / Mariusz Tabaczek. - Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (xxii, 396 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Causation in philosophy and scientific explanation -- Metaphysical aspects of emergence and downward causation -- The central dogma of emergentism -- Metaphysical challenges for emergence and downward causation -- Dynamical depth and causal nonreductionism -- Dispositions/powers metaphysics and emergence -- Theories of causation in analytic metaphysics -- Dispositional metaphysics and the corresponding view of causation -- From powers to forms and teleology : new Aristotelianism -- Dispositional metaphysics, downward causation, and dynamical depth.



9780268104993 9780268105006

2019013532


Complexity (Philosophy)
Emergence (Philosophy)
Causation.
Metaphysics.
Science--Philosophy.


Electronic Books.

B105 / .E447 2019