essays on the prospects of nonreductive physicalism /
edited by Ansgar Beckermann, Hans Flohr, Jaegwon Kim.
Library ed.
New York :
W. de Gruyter,
1992.
1 online resource (315 pages) :
illustrations
Grundlagen der Kommunikation und Kognition = Foundations of communication and cognition
"Most of the papers included in this volume were originally presented at a conference ... held in Oct. 1990, at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld, Germany."--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction � Reductive and Nonreductive Physicalism -- Part I -- Emergence � A Systematic View on its Historical Facets -- The Rise and Fall of British Emergentism -- Supervenience, Emergence, and Reduction -- “Downward Causation� in Emergentism and Non-reductive Physicalism -- A Contemporary Look at Emergence -- Part II -- Nonreductive Materialism and the Nature of Intertheoretical Constraint -- Subjectivity and Knowing What It�s Like -- Physiology, Phenomenology, and Spinoza�s True Colors -- Qualia and Brain Processes -- Part III
Understanding ComplexityEmergent Phenomena and Complex Systems -- On the Way to a Theory of Antireductionist Arguments -- Name Index -- Subject Index