A contextualist approach to emergence

What is exactly the emergence relation? In which sense is irreducibility associated with it besides being assumed by definition? Although in many cases the explanatory role of emergent states does not exceed the explanatory role of more basic states, this does not speak against the fact that, for so...

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Main Author: Esteban Céspedes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2020-04-01
Series:Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/65119