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Carl Gillett, “Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

1 tim 9 min•15 februari 2017

Are complex phenomena “nothing but the sum of their parts”, or are they “more than the sum of their parts”? Physicists, chemists, and biologists as well as philosophers have long argued on both sides of this debate between the idea of reduction and that of emergence. At this point, argues...

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