Context changes everything : : how constraints create coherence /

Context changes everything : : how constraints create coherence / / Alicia Juarrero.

From the influential author of Dynamics in Action , how the concepts of constraints provide a way to rethink relationships, opening the way to intentional, meaningful causation . Grounding her work in the problem of causation, Alicia Juarrero challenges previously held beliefs that only forceful imp...

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Juarrero, Alicia,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : The MIT Press,, 2023
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:The MIT Press
Physical Description:1 online resource (326 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • I
  • 1. What Went Wrong? The Backstory
  • Types, Kinds, and Essences
  • Primary and Secondary (Accidental) Properties
  • Interactions and Relations
  • Efficient Causality
  • Mereology
  • Physical Causal Closure and Overdetermination
  • 2. The Path Forward
  • II
  • 3. Constraints: An Introduction
  • What Are Constraints?
  • Spatial and Temporal Constraints
  • 4. Context-Independent Constraints
  • Containers of Gas and Landscape Design
  • Vague and Ambiguous Constraints
  • Limited Message Variety
  • 5. Why Context Matters-An Interlude
  • Science 2.0 and Medicine 2.0 Are All about Context Dependence
  • The Indirect Effects of Context
  • 6. Context-Dependent Constraints
  • Enabling and Constitutive/Governing Constraints
  • Temporal Constraints
  • Cardinality and Indexicality, Ordinality and Placement
  • Top-Down (Governing) Context-Dependent Constraints
  • Coordination Dynamics Satisfy Second Law
  • 7. Catalysts, Loops, and Closure
  • Catalysts and Feedback Loops
  • Closure of Processes (Catalytic Closure)
  • Autocatalytic Closure
  • Constraint Closure
  • Statistical and Semantic Closure
  • Semantic Attractors
  • 8. An Abundance of Constraints
  • Repetition
  • Replication
  • Reproduction
  • Unity of Type in Species, Demes, and Memes
  • Density, Isolation, and Buffers
  • Isolation
  • Buffers and Other Shields
  • Motility and Migration-The Relaxation of Constraints
  • Templates, Frameworks, Scaffolds, and Affordances
  • Scaffolding
  • Types of Scaffolds
  • 9. Persistence-Delaying the Second Law
  • Persistence and Thermodynamics
  • The Principle of Persistence
  • Selection by Persistence
  • 10. Sedimentation and Entrenchment
  • Sedimentation, Memory, Records, and Registers
  • Entrenchment
  • Varieties of Entrenchment
  • Generative Entrenchment.
  • Generative Entrenchment of Validated Constraints
  • 11. Many-to-One Transitions, Effective and Analog Control
  • Tagging Emergent Properties
  • Analog Control
  • Analog Control and Energy Management
  • Multiply Realizable Domains Are Analog Spaces
  • 12. Of Holons, Holarchy, Heterarchy, and Hierarchy
  • Koestler's Holons and Holarchies
  • Levels of Organization
  • Mereology Revisited
  • Extensional and Intensional Definitions
  • Control Hierarchy
  • III
  • 13. The Backstory, Today
  • Functionalism
  • Chinese Room Objection
  • Principle of Supervenience
  • Multiple Realizability
  • The 4E Approach Today
  • 14. Multiple Realization and Supervenience: A Philosophical Case Study about Constraints
  • Shapiro and Gillett on Multiple Realizability
  • Lange-Because without Cause
  • Principles and Laws
  • 15. Empirical Research on Delayed Response: Neuroscience Case Studies about Constraints
  • Mark Churchland's Team
  • Preparatory and Perimotor Neural Activity
  • A Further Study
  • 16. Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Index.

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