This Element offers an overview of some of the most important debates in philosophy and physics around the topics of emergence and reduction and proposes a compatibilist view of emergence and reduction. In particular, it suggests that specific notions of emergence, which the author calls 'few-m...

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Main Author:	Palacios, Patricia 1985- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2022
Series:	Cambridge elements
Subjects:	Physics / Philosophy Reductionism Emergence (Philosophy)
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	This Element offers an overview of some of the most important debates in philosophy and physics around the topics of emergence and reduction and proposes a compatibilist view of emergence and reduction. In particular, it suggests that specific notions of emergence, which the author calls 'few-many emergence' and 'coarse-grained emergence', are compatible with 'intertheoretic reduction'. Some further issues that will be addressed concern the comparison between parts-whole emergence and few-many emergence, the emergence of effective (-field) theories, the use of infinite limits, the notion of intertheoretic reduction and the explanation of universal and cooperative behavior. Although the focus will be principally on classical phase transitions and other examples from condensed matter physics, the main aim is to draw some general conclusions on the topics of emergence and reduction that can help us understand a variety of case-studies ranging from high-energy physics to astrophysics
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Sep 2022) Phase transitions : a paradigm case -- Few-many reduction vs. few many emergence -- Universality, renormalization, and effective (-field) theories -- Intertheoretic reduction
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (81 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781108901017
DOI:	10.1017/9781108901017