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Tabaczek, Mariusz

 
9780268104979: Emergence: Towards a New Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0268104972 ISBN 13 : 9780268104979
Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2019

Synopsis

Over the last several decades, the theories of emergence and downward causation have become arguably the most popular conceptual tools in scientific and philosophical attempts to explain the nature and character of global organization observed in various biological phenomena, from individual cell organization to ecological systems. The theory of emergence acknowledges the reality of layered strata or levels of systems, which are consequences of the appearance of an interacting range of novel qualities.

A closer analysis of emergentism, however, reveals a number of philosophical problems facing this theory. In Emergence, Mariusz Tabaczek offers a thorough analysis of these problems and a constructive proposal of a new metaphysical foundation for both the classic downward causation-based and the new dynamical depth accounts of emergence theory, developed by Terrence Deacon. Tabaczek suggests ways in which both theoretical models of emergentism can be grounded in the classical and the new (dispositionalist) versions of Aristotelianism. This book will have an eager audience in metaphysicians working both in the analytic and the Thomistic traditions, as well as philosophers of science and biology interested in emergence theory and causation.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mariusz Tabaczek, O.P., is a friar preacher, professor of theology, and member of the Thomistic Institute at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome. He is the author of Divine Action and Emergence: An Alternative to Panentheism (University of Notre Dame Press, 2021).

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Éditeur
University of Notre Dame Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0268104972
ISBN 13 
9780268104979
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
418
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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