Emergence: Core ideas and issues
Emergence: Core ideas and issues
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DOI：
10.1007/s11229-006-9025-0
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发表时间：
2006-08-01
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影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Kim, Jaegwon
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作者：
Kim, Jaegwon
本文探讨了激发涌现思想和涌现运动的基本思想。阐述了作为涌现思想核心的约化概念，并说明了涌现性质不可约这一命题是如何给出涌现的统一解释的。这篇论文接着讨论了两个尚未解决的紧急情况的基本问题。第一个是对涌现给予“积极”的描述；第二个是给出一个连贯的解释，说明“向下的”因果关系是如何能够避免过度确定的问题的。
This paper explores the fundamental ideas that have motivated the idea of emergence and the movement of emergentism. The concept of reduction, which lies at the heart of the emergence idea is explicated, and it is shown how the thesis that emergent properties are irreducible gives a unified account of emergence. The paper goes on to discuss two fundamental unresolved issues for emergentism. The first is that of giving a "positive" characterization of emergence; the second is to give a coherent explanation of how "downward" causation, a central component of emergentism, is able to avoid the problem of overdetermination.