Emergence

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Emergence is written by Paul Humphreys and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190620323 (ISBN 10) and 9780190620325 (ISBN 13).

Emergence develops a novel account of diachronic ontological emergence called transformational emergence and locates it in an established historical framework. The author shows how many problems affecting ontological emergence result from a dominant but inappropriate metaphysical tradition and provides a comprehensive assessment of current theories of emergence.