Concepts of Dynamic Emergence

项目总结。这项研究将检验动态涌现的概念，它有望成为理解涌现现象如何在计算模型中随时间产生的一种方式。贯穿全文的重点将是涌现的动态模式，而不是主导哲学文献的共时性方法。研究结果将阐明科学哲学中一些较新的和较传统的问题，包括“弱涌现”的概念；它将为紧急情况的监督治疗提供另一种选择；组织层次的概念框架可有可无的程度；一个结构自治意味着什么？如果有的话，这种涌现本质上是认识论的；多重可实现性与涌现性的关系以及概念涌现所起的作用。还将研究一类表现出自我约束行为的模型。这个建议的智力价值。拟议中的研究将把哲学中的涌现理论与复杂性理论中的涌现理论联系起来。PI在过去十年中发表的关于涌现和计算科学的作品，以及他之前和未来与跨学科研究小组的合作工作，将结合在这个研究项目中。该研究将建立在现有的涌现工作的基础上，但其主要目标是发展一种动态涌现的新描述，并探索自我约束系统的新领域。更广泛的研究影响。研究结果应该引起复杂性理论领域的研究人员以及科学和技术哲学家的兴趣。研究结果将被纳入PI的科学哲学课程，作为当代科学建模如何工作的例证。研究结果将发表在核心哲学期刊上，也可能发表在专门研究复杂系统理论的期刊上。

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.