John Mcgeever
Biographic Data
| ID | 1629239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Mcgeever |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgeever |
| SIGNATURE | MCGEEVER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Elizabethtown College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Search for Ontological Emergence
We survey and clarify some recent appearances of the term ‘emergence’. We distinguish epistemological emergence, which is merely a limitation of descriptive apparatus, from ontological emergence, which should involve causal features of a whole system not reducible to the properties of its parts, thus implying the failure of part/whole reductionism and of mereological supervenience for that system. Are there actually any plausible cases of the lat…
The Search for Ontological Emergence
We survey and clarify some recent appearances of the term ‘emergence’. We distinguish epistemological emergence, which is merely a limitation of descriptive apparatus, from ontological emergence, which should involve causal features of a whole system not reducible to the properties of its parts, thus implying the failure of part/whole reductionism and of mereological supervenience for that system. Are there actually any plausible cases of the lat…
The Search for Ontological Emergence
We survey and clarify some recent appearances of the term ‘emergence’. We distinguish epistemological emergence, which is merely a limitation of descriptive apparatus, from ontological emergence, which should involve causal features of a whole system not reducible to the properties of its parts, thus implying the failure of part/whole reductionism and of mereological supervenience for that system. Are there actually any plausible cases of the lat…
Epistemology (1 works) · Mereology (1 works) · Metaphysics (1 works) · Ontology (1 works) · Origins and Evolution of Life (1 works) · Philosophy (1 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (1 works) · Physicalism (1 works) · Quantum Mechanics and Applications (1 works) · Reductionism (1 works)