Bain, Jonathan (2012) Emergence in Effective Field Theories. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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This essay considers the extent to which a concept of emergence can be associated with Effective Field Theories (EFTs). I suggest that such a concept can be characterized by microphysicalism and novelty underwritten by the elimination of degrees of freedom from a high-energy theory, and argue that this makes emergence in EFTs distinct from other concepts of emergence in physics that have appeared in the recent philosophical literature.
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| Keywords: | emergence, effective field theory, quantum field theory | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Condensed Matter Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory |
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| Depositing User: | Jonathan Bain | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 07 Nov 2012 00:16 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 07 Nov 2012 00:16 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 9408 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Condensed Matter Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory |
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| Date: | 5 November 2012 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9408 |
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