Emergence and Convergence : : Qualitative Novelty and the Unity of Knowledge / / Mario Bunge.
Two problems continually arise in the sciences and humanities, according to Mario Bunge: parts and wholes and the origin of novelty. In Emergence and Convergence, he works to address these problems, as well as that of systems and their emergent properties, as exemplified by the synthesis of molecule...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Studies in Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I: Emergence
- 1. Part and Whole, Resultant and Emergent
- 2. System Emergence and Submergence
- 3. The Systemic Approach
- 4. Semiotic and Communication Systems
- 5. Society and Artefact
- 6. Individualism and Holism: Theoretical
- 7. Individualism and Holism: Practical
- 8. Three Views of Society
- Part II: Convergence
- 9. Reduction and Reductionism
- 10. A Pack of Failed Reductionist Projects
- 11. Why Integration Succeeds in Social Studies
- 12. Functional Convergence: The Case of Mental Functions
- 13. Stealthy Convergence: Rational-choice Theory and Hermeneutics
- 14. Convergence as Confusion: The Case of 'Maybe'
- 15. Emergence of Truth and Convergence to Truth
- 16. Emergence of Disease and Convergence of the Biomedical Sciences
- 17. The Emergence of Convergence and Divergence
- Glossary
- References
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects