List of Figures ................................................ ix
Introduction ................................................... xi
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PART I
Emergence: General Perspectives
Part I Introduction ............................................. 3
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1 The Secret Lives of Emergents ................................ 7
HONG YU WONG
2 On the Implications of Scientific Composition and
Completeness: Or, The Troubles, and Troubles, of
Non-Reductive Physicalism ................................... 25
CARL GILLETT
3 Weak Emergence and Context-Sensitive Reduction .............. 46
MARK A. BEDAU
4 Two Varieties of Causal Emergentism ......................... 64
MICHELE DI FRANCESCO
5 The Emergence of Group Cognition ............................ 78
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PART II
Self, Agency, and Free Will
Part II Introduction
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6 Why My Body is Not Me: The Unity Argument for Emergentist
Self-Body Dualism .......................................... 127
E. JONATHAN LOWE
7 What About the Emergence of Consciousness Deserves
Puzzlement? ................................................ 149
MARTINE NIDA-RÜMELIN
8 The Emergence of Rational Souls ............................ 163
UWE MEIXNER
9 Are Deliberations and Decisions Emergent, if Free? ......... 180
ACHIM STEPHAN
10 Is Emergentism Refuted by the Neurosciences? The Case of
Free Will .................................................. 190
MARIO DE CARO
PART III
Physics, Mathematics, and the Special Sciences
Part III Introduction ......................................... 207
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11 Emergence in Physics ....................................... 213
PATRICK MCGIVERN AND ALEXANDER RUEGER
12 The Emergence of the Intuition of Truth in Mathematical
Thought .................................................... 233
SERGIO GALVAN
13 The Emergence of Mind at the Co-Evolutive Level ............ 251
ARTURO CARSETTI
14 Emerging Mental Phenomena: Implications for Psychological
Explanation ................................................ 266
ALESSANDRO ANTONIETTI
15 How Special Are Special Sciences? .......................... 289
ANTONELLA CORRADINI
Contributors .................................................. 305
Index ......................................................... 309
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