Essential Difference: Toward a Metaphysics of Emergence

State University of New York Press (2012)
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Proposes a new way of understanding the nature of metaphysics, focusing on nonreductionist emergence theory, both in ancient and modern philosophy, as well as in contemporary philosophy of science

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1438443315   1438443323   9781438443324   9781438443317   9781438443331

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10.1515/9781438443331
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Material beings.Peter Van Inwagen - 1990 - Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Patterns of discovery.Norwood Russell Hanson - 1958 - Cambridge [Eng.]: University Press.
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