Emergence, Not Supervenience

Philosophy of Science 64 (S4):S337-S345 (1997)
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Abstract

I argue that supervenience is an inadequate device for representing relations between different levels of phenomena. I then provide six criteria that emergent phenomena seem to satisfy. Using examples drawn from macroscopic physics, I suggest that such emergent features may well be quite common in the physical realm.

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