Emergence and Convergence: Qualitative Novelty and the Unity of Knowledge (Toronto Studies in Philosophy) - Image 1

£66.99

University of Toronto Press Emergence and Convergence: Qualitative Novelty and the Unity of Knowledge (Toronto Studies in Philosophy)

Name: Emergence and Convergence: Qualitative Novelty and the Unity of Knowledge (Toronto Studies in Philosophy)
Brand: University of Toronto Press
Price: 66.99 GBP
Availability: InStock

Evolution

Price History & Forecast

Last 74 days • 74 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 74 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £67 (74 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £67 - £67

Price levels: 1 different prices over 74 days

Description

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 molecules, the creation of ideas, and social inventions. Along the way, Bunge examines further topical problems, such as the search for the mechanisms underlying observable facts, the limitations of both individualism and holism, the reach of reduction, the abuses of Darwinism, the rational choice-hermeneutics feud, the modularity of the brain vs. the unity of the mind, the cluster of concepts around 'maybe,' the uselessness of many-worlds metaphysics and semantics, the hazards posed by Bayesianism, the nature of partial truth, the obstacles to correct medical diagnosis, and the formal conditions for the emergence of a cross-discipline. Bunge is not interested in idle fantasies, but about many of the problems that occur in any discipline that studies reality or ways to control it. His work is about the merger of initially independent lines of inquiry, such as developmental evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, and socio-economics. Bunge proposes a clear definition of the concept of emergence to replace that of supervenience and clarifies the notions of system, real possibility, inverse problem, interdiscipline, and partial truth that occur in all fields.

Product Specifications

Brand: University of Toronto Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0802088600
Category: Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths > Biological Sciences > Evolution
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 13 December 2003
Listed Since: 15 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

University of Toronto Press Emergence and Convergence: Qualitative Novelty and the Unity of Knowledge (Toronto Studies in Philosophy)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Matter and Mind: A Philosophical Inquiry: 287 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 287)

Routledge Political Philosophy: Fact, Fiction, and Vision

Emergence: Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science

Emergence in Context: A Treatise in Twenty-First Century Natural Philosophy

Mario Bunge: A Centenary Festschrift

General Theory of Knowledge: 11 (LEP Library of Exact Philosophy, 11)

Emergence: A Philosophical Account

The Metaphysics of Science and Aim-Oriented Empiricism: A Revolution for Science and Philosophy: 403 (Synthese Library, 403)

Culture and Cultural Entities - Toward a New Unity of Science: 170 (Synthese Library, 170)

The Sociology-philosophy Connection (Science and Technology Studies)

Hierarchical Emergent Ontology and the Universal Principle of Emergence

The Routledge Handbook of Emergence (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy)

Emergence and Modularity in Life Sciences

Hierarchical Emergent Ontology and the Universal Principle of Emergence

The Routledge Handbook of Emergence (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy)

The Sociology-Philosophy Connection

Scientific Philosophy Today: Essays in Honor of Mario Bunge: 67 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 67)

Emergent Evolution: Qualitative Novelty and the Levels of Reality: 19 (Episteme, 19)

Interdisciplinary Knowledge Organization

Emergence: Towards A New Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science

Springer - Existence, Historical Fabulation, Destiny: 99

Scientific Controversies: A Socio-Historical Perspective on the Advancement of Science

Springer Mereology and the Sciences: Parts and Wholes 371

Epistemic Complexity and Knowledge Construction: Morphogenesis, symbolic dynamics and beyond: 45 (Theory and Decision Library A:, 45)