Strong Emergence as a Defese of Non-Reductive Physicalism

Jaegwon Kim, and others, have recently posed a powerful challenge to both emergentism and nom-reductive physicalism by providing arguments that these positions are committed to an untenable combination of both ‘upward’ and ‘dounward’ determination. In section 1, I illuminate how the nature of the r...

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Main Author: Carl Gillett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2002-06-01
Series:Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
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Online Access:http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/17074/15629