Hilbert, Maxime and Sartenaer, Olivier (2025) The Rise and Fall of a Myth about British Emergentism. [Preprint]
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While emergentism enjoys some good fortune in contemporary philosophy, attempts at elucidating the history of this view are rare. Among such attempts, by far the most influential certainly is McLaughlin’s landmark paper “The Rise and Fall of British Emergentism” (1992). While McLaughlin’s analysis of the recent history of emergentism is insightful and instructive in its own ways, in the present paper we offer reasons to be suspicious of some of its central claims. In particular, we advance evidence that rebuts McLaughlin’s contention that British Emergentism did not fall in the 1920–1930s because of philosophical criticism but rather because of an alleged empirical inconsistency with fledgling quantum mechanics.
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| Keywords: | British Emergentism – Emergence – Non-Reductive Materialism – Logical Empiricism – Quantum Mechanics – Complementarity | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Philosophers of Science General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Olivier Sartenaer | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 20 Mar 2025 14:52 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2025 14:52 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 24921 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Philosophers of Science General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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| Date: | 2025 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24921 |
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