Concepts of Dynamic Emergence

动态涌现的概念

• 批准号: 0523678
• 负责人: Paul Humphreys
• 金额: $ 7万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-01-15 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0523678&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Concepts; Dynamic; Emergence

Project summary.The research will examine a concept of dynamic emergence that shows promise as a way of understanding how emergent phenomena can be produced over time in computational models. The emphasis throughout will be on dynamic modes of emergence rather than the synchronic approaches that have dominated the philosophical literature. The results will illuminate a number of newer and more traditional issues in the philosophy of science including the concept of `weak emergence'; it will provide an alternative to supervenience treatments of emergence; the extent to which the conceptual framework of levels of organization is dispensable; what it means for a structure to be autonomous; the sense, if any, in which this type of emergence is essentially epistemic; the relations between multiple realizability and emergence; and the role played byconceptual emergence. A particular class of models that exhibit self-constraining behavior will also be investigated.Intellectual merit of the proposal.The proposed research will connect ideas about emergence in philosophy with those that have been developed in complexity theory. The PI's previous published work on emergence and on computational science, written over the last decade, together with his previous and future collaborative work with inter-disciplinary research groups, will be combined in this research project. The research will build on existing work in emergence but has as its primary goals developing a novel account of dynamic emergence and exploring the new area of self-constraining systems.Broader impact of the research.The results should be of interest to researchers in the area of complexity theory as well as to philosophers of science and technology. The results will be incorporated into the PI's philosophy of science classes as illustrations of how contemporary scientific modeling works. The results of the research will be published in core philosophy journals and probably also journals devoted tocomplex systems theory.

项目摘要：研究将检验动态涌现的概念，它展示了一种理解如何在计算模型中随着时间的推移产生涌现现象的方法。贯穿始终的重点将是动态的涌现模式，而不是主导哲学文献的同步方法。研究结果将阐明科学哲学中的一些较新和更传统的问题，包括“弱涌现”的概念；它将提供对涌现的随意性处理的另一种选择；组织层次的概念框架在多大程度上是可有可无的；组织结构的自主性意味着什么；这种涌现本质上是认识性的意义(如果有的话)；多重可实现性与涌现之间的关系；以及概念性涌现所发挥的作用。还将研究一类表现出自我约束行为的特定模型。该提议的智力价值。拟议的研究将把哲学中关于涌现的想法与复杂性理论中发展起来的想法联系起来。他在过去十年中发表的关于涌现和计算科学的著作，以及他以前和未来与跨学科研究小组的合作工作，都将被结合在这个研究项目中。这项研究将建立在现有涌现工作的基础上，但其主要目标是发展一种关于动态涌现的新解释，并探索自我约束系统的新领域。这项研究的广泛影响。研究结果应该引起复杂性理论领域的研究人员以及科学技术哲学家的兴趣。研究结果将作为当代科学建模如何工作的例证，被纳入国际科学联合会的科学哲学课程。这项研究的结果将发表在核心哲学期刊上，可能还会发表在致力于复杂系统理论的期刊上。