Emergence or Reduction?

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Prof. Dr. A. Beckermann lehrt an der Universität Bielefeld.

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Frontmatter -- Reductive and Nonreductive Physicalism / BECKERMANN, ANSGAR -- Part I -- Emergence - A Systematic View on its Historical Facets / STEPHAN, ACHIM -- The Rise and Fall of British Emergentism / MCLAUGHLIN, BRIAN P. -- Supervenience, Emergence, and Reduction / BECKERMANN, ANSGAR -- "Downward Causation" in Emergentism and Nonreductive Physicalism / KIM, JAEGWON -- A Contemporary Look at Emergence / TELLER, PAUL -- Part II -- Nonreductive Materialism and the Nature of Intertheoretical Constraint / GULICK, ROBERT VAN -- Subjectivity and Knowing What It's Like / TELLER, PAUL -- Physiology, Phenomenology, and Spinoza's True Colors / HARDIN, CLYDE L. -- Qualia and Brain Processes / FLOHR, HANS -- Part III -- Understanding Complexity / KÜPPERS, BERND-OLAF -- Emergent Phenomena and Complex Systems / BECHTEL, WILLIAM / RICHARDSON, ROBERT C. -- On the Way to a Theory of Antireductionist Arguments / HOYNINGEN-HUENE, PAUL -- Name Index -- Subject Index