Emergence and Convergence: Qualitative Novelty and the Unity of Knowledge - Brossura

Bunge, Mario

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ISBN 10: 1442628219 ISBN 13: 9781442628212

Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 2014

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Mario Bunge is the Frothingham Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Toronto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1442628219
• ISBN 13: 9781442628212
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 330
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile