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  • noun philosophy The belief in emergence, particularly as it involves consciousness and the philosophy of mind, and as it contrasts (or not) with reductionism.

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emergent +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • For the emergentist problem is a problem only to the extent that emergentism is a coherent possibility.

    Physicalism Stoljar, Daniel 2009

  • For emergentism seems to be consistent both with dualism and with supervenience physicalism, since according to emergentism, any world physically identical to the actual world will be identical to it in all respects.

    Physicalism Stoljar, Daniel 2009

  • I don't believe an ID advocates say that a form of emergentism or computationalism is "logically impossible" but that these scenarios are not supported by available evidence.

    ID & Ego James F. McGrath 2009

  • I don't believe an ID advocates say that a form of emergentism or computationalism is "logically impossible" but that these scenarios are not supported by available evidence.

    ID & Ego James F. McGrath 2009

  • On this interpretation, emergentism seems very similar to a posteriori physicalism (Byrne 1993).

    Physicalism Stoljar, Daniel 2009

  • Melnyk's suggestion is a natural one in the face of the emergentism problem.

    Physicalism Stoljar, Daniel 2009

  • Nor are mental kinds and neurophysiological kinds either identical or subkinds of one another; consequently emergentism is in conflict with the (contested) taxonomic hierarchy criterion

    Natural Kinds Bird, Alexander 2008

  • Science is at the very least methodological naturalism, reductionism (fundamental theories) and emergentism (complementing models, effective theories) by method, and many scientists are realists.

    Vatican Policy: Not Evolving - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • But I do subscribe to science, which seems to incorporate both reductionism (fundamental theories) and emergentism (effective theories).

    AIDS denial and creationism--common thread of bad statistics - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • “Armchair arguments against emergentism,” Erkenntnis 46: 305-314.

    Emergent Properties O'Connor, Timothy 2006

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