Emergence, Varieties of Explanation, and the Generality of Laws (Part II)

The principal aim of this paper is to show that a constraint that C.D. Broad imposed on the acceptability of deductions of macroproperties which would show them to be non-emergent, viz. that they use only general laws of nature, is too strong and should be replaced by the weaker condition that the d...

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Main Author: J Schröder
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2011-06-01
Series:RUDN Journal of Philosophy
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Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/philosophy/article/view/11475