There have long been controversies about how minds can fit into a physical universe. In Emergence in Mind a distinguished group of philosophers discuss whether mental properties can be said to 'emerge' from physical processes. The discussion is extended to cover the role emergence may play in free will and agency, and in the special sciences. INDICE: 1: Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald: Introduction; 2: TimCrane: Cosmic Hermeneutics vs. Emergence: The Challenge of the Explanatory Gap.; 3: Michele Di Francesco: Explanation, Emergence and Causality: Comments onCrane.; 4: Timothy O'Connor and John Ross Churchill: Is Nonreductive Physicalism Viable Within a Causal Powers Metaphysic?; 5: Stephan Leuenberger: Exclusion and Physicalism: Comments on O'Connor and Churchill.; 6: Paul Noordhof: Emergent Causation and Property Causation.; 7: Simone Gozzano: Emergence: Laws and Properties: Comments On Noordhof.; 8: Peter Menzies and Christian List: The Causal Autonomy of the Special Sciences.; 9: Ausonio Marras and Juhani Yli-Vakkuri: Causal and Explanatory Autonomy: A Reply to Menzies and List.; 10: Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald: Emergence and Downward Causation.; 11: Peter Wyss: Identity With a Difference: Comments on Macdonald and Macdonald.; 12: David Papineau: Can Any Sciences Be Special?; 13: Michael Esfeld: Can Any Sciences be Special? Comment on Papineau.; 14: Robin Findlay Hendry: Emergence vs.Reduction in Chemistry.; 15: Achim Stephan: An Emergentist's Perspective on the Problem of Free Will.; 16: Max Kistler: Strong Emergence and Freedom: Comment on A. Stephan.; 17: Philip Pettit: Rationality, Reasoning and Group Agency.
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958362-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 29/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés