The Search for Ontological Emergence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4352291 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Silberstein (0000-0002-3690-0356, Elizabethtown College), John Mcgeever (Elizabethtown College) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 195 |
| Pages | 201-214 |
| Publication date | 1999-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9213.00136 |
| OpenAlex | W2158455458 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 52 |
| References cited | 17 |
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 latter among the numerous and various mentions of ‘emergence’ in the recent literature? Quantum mechanics seems to offer one, in the Bell properties of entangled particles, but other apparently promising candidates, such as non‐linear dynamical systems investigated by complexity studies and chaos theory, seem on careful analysis to display only epistemological emergence. We examine the consequences for physicalism of admitting ontological emergence in the micro‐physical
Epistemology · Mereology · Metaphysics · Ontology · Physicalism · Reductionism · Supervenience · Origins and Evolution of Life · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Quantum Mechanics and Applications
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Getting things right?’
Flanqueando el procesualismo y post-procesualismo
Space is the Place
Bhaskar on Open and Closed Systems
Redefining emergence
Taking Emergence Seriously
Truth and Human Nature
Mathematics for Humans
Where There's a Will There's a Way
Direct Perceptual Realism II
Manifest Realism II
Direct Perceptual Realism I
Manifest Realism I
How Do We Know Necessary Truths?
Radical embodiment
Life and Mind
Emergence, Reduction and Supervenience
A Convex Mirror
Emergence in Context
Kant, Science, and Human Nature
A dialectical reading of Dynamic Systems Theory
Immanent Transcendence and the Christian Understanding of the Emergence of the New Heaven and Earth
Emergence and Contingency in Modern Scientific Theories
On a system–environment relationship in scientific inquiry
Appearance and Persistence as the Unity of Diachronic and Synchronic Concepts of Emergence
Processual Emergentism
Emergentism and the Contingent Solubility of Salt
Deleuze, Guattari and Emergence
Emergence Made Ontological? Computational versus Combinatorial Approaches
After the Philosophy of Mind
Reduction and emergence in the fractional quantum Hall state
Complexity as a contrast between dynamics and phenomenology
Critical Realism and the Process Account of Emergence
Constrained dynamics both orthograde and contragrade
Mechanisms and microfoundations in International Relations theory
Emergent agent causation
Emergence within social systems
Thermal substances
Complex emergence and the living organization
Downward causation in fluid convection
Emergence
Integrated-structure emergence and its mechanistic explanation
Integrated information theory of consciousness is a functionalist emergentism
Emergent Physics and Micro-Ontology
Social emergence and unpredictability
Emergent causal novelty. From early emergentism to the contemporary debate
Neurodynamics of Mind
A New Problem for Ontological Emergence
Exploring Philosophical Implications of Quantum Decoherence
The new antiquarianism
The Phenomenon of Emergence as a Key to Deepening the Mystery of the Cosmos, for Cross-Disciplinary and Humble Scientific Research
In the Wake of Chaos
The Origins of Order
For whom the Bell arguments toll
Nonseparable processes and causal explanation
Emergence and Strange Attractors
Quantum Measurement and the Program for the Unity of Science
How Properties Emerge
Incompleteness, Nonlocality and Realism
Relational Holism and Quantum Mechanics
Emergence or Reduction
| Unique citing works | 52 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |