Céspedes, Esteban (2019) On contextual and ontological aspects of emergence and reduction. [Preprint]

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Abstract

Although the interest about emergence has grown during the last years, there does not seem to be consensus on whether it is a non-trivial, interesting notion and whether the concept of reduction is relevant to its characterization. Another key issue is whether emergence should be understood as an epistemic notion or if there is a plausible ontological concept of emergence. The aim of this work is to propose an epistemic notion of contextual emergence on the basis of which one may tackle those issues.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Céspedes, Esteban esteban.cespedes@uv.cl 0000-0002-5329-5434
Keywords:	contextual emergence, ontological emergence, downward causation, consciousness, novelty
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Complex Systems Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Consciousness General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Reductionism/Holism General Issues > Structure of Theories
Depositing User:	Mr. Esteban Céspedes
Date Deposited:	17 Jul 2019 03:29
Last Modified:	17 Jul 2019 03:29
Item ID:	16222
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Complex Systems Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Consciousness General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Reductionism/Holism General Issues > Structure of Theories
Date:	11 July 2019
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16222

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