Rethinking Emergence

There has been a surge of recent interest in a family of phenomena that may broadly be described as emergent. This includes much lively and ongoing debate concerning whether any kind of emergence can be accommodated within a functionalist framework, whether emergence occurs at a time or over time, the role of context and constraint in emergence, and apparent downward causation in scientific case studies, as well as how ancient concepts of fusion, form, and transformation connect with contemporary accounts of emergence. Rethinking Emergence brings together historians of philosophy, philosophers of science, and metaphysicians in conversation to address these central questions and to delve into as-yet unexplored points of contact among their varied perspectives.

1 - Must Ontological Emergence be Spooky?
2 - Killing the Hard Problem: Contextual Emergence, Neutral Monism, and the Radical Empiricist Science of Consciousness
3 - Contextual Emergence in Physics
4 - Scientific Emergentism through an Integrative Pluralist Lens: Exploring Scientific Model Creation and the Role of Endogenous Metaphysics
5 - Emergence and Reduction: Where Is the Evidence?
6 - Reframing the Reduction–Emergence Debate around Chemistry
7 - The Emergence of Emergence
8 - Hylomorphic Emergence
9 - Staunch Hylomorphism and its Emergentist Credentials: A Comparison of Uniformism, Pluriformism, and Machretic Emergentism
10 - Aristotle’s Hylomorphic Anti-Emergence
11 - Hylomorphism, or Something Near Enough
12 - Diachronic Emergence and the Collapse Problem
13 - On the Notion of Diachronic Emergence
14 - Emergence and Levels of Fundamentality
15 - Metaphysical Emergence as Higher-Level Naturalness

David Yates received his PhD from King's College London in 2006. He was a lecturer at KCL and Sheffield, and a postdoc at the Institute of Philosophy, KCL, and at Oxford University, before arriving in Lisbon as an FCT Researcher funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. He specializes in metaphysics of science and publishes on powers, causation, emergence, realization and related topics at the intersection of metaphysics and the philosophies of science and mind. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Lisbon and a member of the LanCog research group. Amanda Bryant is an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Department of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. Her philosophical work focuses on methodological naturalism and related views such as scientism and empiricism, especially as they relate to metaphysics. She received her PhD in Philosophy from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center in 2017.