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| adam_text | Everything in the Universe has emerged, in some sense, since the Big Bang. But the concept of
emergence is problematic and controversial. The Metaphysics of Emergence contends that the
contemporary philosophical debates are vitiated by the persistence of the traditional assumption
that what primarily exists are particular entities: things. Instead it presents a sustained argument
for recognizing generic processes as primary.
This radical alternative finds support from interpreting the sub-atomic ‘particles of contemporary
physics as nodes in a quantum field, and resolves long-standing problems of explaining identity
over time. Campbell then proceeds to develop a metaphysical taxonomy of emergent entities,
showing how all biological creatures maintain themselves by changing their interaction with
their environments. This approach enables a fruitful account of emergence, and provides reasons
to reject the widespread view that reality is determined by its physical basis. The book concludes
with a discussion of human mentality, values, and freedom.
Richard Campbell AM is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at The Australian National University.
He has served as Dean of Arts and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the ANU, and was for 15 years also
involved in restructuring the system of school education in the Australian Capital Territory. In
1986 he was installed by Queen Elizabeth II as a Member of the Order of Australia. He is author
of Secondary Education for Canberra (1973), From Belief to Understanding (1976), Truth and
Historicity (1992), The Concept of Truth (2011), and numerous articles.
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements x
1 Processes and Entities 1
1.1 Change and stability 1
1.2 The need for a new metaphysics 2
1.3 An overview of this project 5
1.4 A terminological difficulty 7
2 The Metaphysics of Particular Entities 10
2.1 The reification of being and the unreality of change 10
2.2 The invention of the timeless 14
2.3 Entity as the primary category 17
2.4 Entities as countable particulars 20
2.5 The invention of material 25
2.6 Explaining change 28
2.7 The disintegration of the Aristotelian
explanatory model 30
2.8 Descartes metaphysical dichotomy 32
2.9 Locke, Newton and the corpuscular philosophy 35
2.10 The rise of physicalist metaphysics 38
3 Conceptual Shifts in Physics 42
3.1 The invention of physical science 42
3.2 The fate of matter 46
3.3 The superseding of Newtonian physics 49
3.4 Reconceptualizing particles 53
3.5 Particles and quantum fields 56
3.6 Conceptualizing quantum phenomena 59
3.7 Realist interpretations of QFT 61
3.8 Metaphysical implications 68
4 The Category of Generic Processes 72
4.1 Processes, stuffs, and particulars 73
4.2 Generic and specific processes 79
4.3 Identifying categories 81
4.4 The logic of process-descriptions 84
4.5 Processes, entities, and their parts 91
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viii Contents
4.6 Re-categorizing countables 94
4.7 The part-of relation 99
4.8 Processes and series of events 101
4.9 Whitehead s process metaphysics 104
5 Identity Through Change 107
5.1 Identity and discernible difference 108
5.2 Identity as continuity of temporal parts 111
5.3 Change in four-dimensional entities 113
5.4 Common assumptions 115
5.5 Heraclitus insight 118
5.6 Change in enduring entities 120
5.7 Sameness across different times 127
5.8 The types of generic process 130
6 A Metaphysical Taxonomy of Emergent Entities 134
6.1 Processes and their organizations 135
6.2 Persistence and stability 139
6.3 Entities as cohesive organizations of processes 140
6.4 Energy wells 146
6.5 Far-from-equilibrium stability 148
6.6 Self-maintenant systems 149
6.7 Recursively self-maintenant systems 152
6.8 The status of the concept of recursive self-maintenance 157
7 An Evolutionary Taxonomy of Types of Action and Life 161
7.1 Agency and causation 162
7.2 Goal-directedness 163
7.3 Serving a function 167
7.4 Liability to error 171
7.5 Minimal action 172
7.6 Selective action 177
7.7 Error detection 179
7.8 Flexible learners 180
7.9 Self-reflective persons 183
7.10 Social institutions and groups 188
7.11 Conclusion 190
8 The Concept of Emergence 192
8.1 Clarifying the issues 193
8.2 Emergence bases and open systems 198
8.3 A definition of emergence 203
8.4 Emergence and non-linearity 209
Contents ix
8.5 Self-organization 212
8.6 Emergence and reduction 215
8.7 Emergence and the causal exclusion argument 220
8.8 Downward causation and physical laws 226
9 The World According to Physicalism 232
9.1 Defining physicalism in terms of physical objects 233
9.2 Defining physicalism in terms of physical theory 237
9.3 Mereological supervenience 241
9*4 The irreducibility of actions 245
9.5 Non-reductive supervenience 248
9.6 Humean supervenience 250
9.7 Global supervenience 253
9.8 Basic particulars 258
9.9 Physicalism without particulars? 259
10 The Mental Activity of Human Beings 262
10.1 intentionality and mental content 263
10.2 Correspondence theories of representations 265
10.3 The interactive model of representations 267
10.4 The emergence of awareness 271
10.5 The hard problem of consciousness 273
10.6 Sensory experience 277
10.7 The emergence of reflective consciousness 281
10.8 Rationality 286
10.9 Being conscious of oneself 289
11 Further Reflections 293
11.1 Time 293
11.2 The puzzle about entropy 296
11.3 The emergence of value 302
11.4 Freedom and causation 308
11.5 Concluding reflections 313
Bibliography 316
Index 327
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