Emergence and Reflexive Downward
This paper responds to Jaegwon Kim's powerful objection to the very possibility of genuinely novel emergent properties Kim argue that the incoherence of reflexive downward causation means that the causal power of an emergent phenomenon is ultimately reducible to the causal powers of its constit...
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2002-06-01
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| description | This paper responds to Jaegwon Kim's powerful objection to the very possibility of genuinely novel emergent properties Kim argue that the incoherence of reflexive downward causation means that the causal power of an emergent phenomenon is ultimately reducible to the causal powers of its constituents. I offer a a simple argument showing how to characterize emergent properties m terms of the effects of structural relations an the causal powers of that constituents. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-95cea62783ac48f6aa6658263ef0017a2022-12-21T23:43:24ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology1414-42471808-17112002-06-01061183201Emergence and Reflexive DownwardJohn SymonsThis paper responds to Jaegwon Kim's powerful objection to the very possibility of genuinely novel emergent properties Kim argue that the incoherence of reflexive downward causation means that the causal power of an emergent phenomenon is ultimately reducible to the causal powers of its constituents. I offer a a simple argument showing how to characterize emergent properties m terms of the effects of structural relations an the causal powers of that constituents.http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/17094/15641Emergencedownward causationKim |
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| title | Emergence and Reflexive Downward |
| title_full | Emergence and Reflexive Downward |
| title_fullStr | Emergence and Reflexive Downward |
| title_full_unstemmed | Emergence and Reflexive Downward |
| title_short | Emergence and Reflexive Downward |
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| topic | Emergence downward causation Kim |
| url | http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/17094/15641 |
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