The re-emergence of emergence: the emergentist hypothesis from science to religion
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2006
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
The physical sciences -- The biological sciences -- Consciousness and emergence -- Religion and emergence
This volume introduces readers to emergence theory, outlines the major arguments in its defence, and summarizes the most powerful objections against it. It provides the clearest explication yet of this exciting new theory of science, which challenges the reductionist approach by proposing the continuous emergence of novel phenomena. - ;Much of the modern period was dominated by a r̀eductionist' theory of science. On this view, to explain any event in the world is to reduce it down to fundamental particles, laws, and forces. In recent years reductionism has been dramatically challenged by a rad
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 330 pages)
ISBN:0191516015
9780191516016
9780199287147

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