Reduction, Emergence, and the Mind/Body Problem: A Philosophic Overview
Evolution and Emergence April 5, 2007 Robert van Gulick
Abstract My aim in this chapter is to give an overview of the recent discussion in the philosophy of mind that will serve as a map in locating issues and options. I will focus in particular on three central and interrelated ideas: those of emergence, reduction, and nonreductive physicalism. The third of these, which has emerged as more or less the majority view among current philosophers of...