Emergence in Mind [Hardcover]

There have long been controversies about how it is that minds can fit into a physical universe.Emergence in Mindpresents new essays by a distinguished group of philosophers investigating whether mental properties can be said to 'emerge' from the physical processes in the universe. Such emergence requires mental properties to be different from physical properties, and much of the discussion relates to what the consequences of such a difference might be in areas such as freedom of the will, and the possibility of scientific explanations of non-physical (for example, social) phenomena. The volume also extends the debate about emergence by considering the independence of chemical properties from physical properties, and investigating what would need to be the case for there to be groups that could be said to exercise rationality.

1. Introduction,Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald
2. Cosmic Hermeneutics vs. Emergence: The Challenge of the Explanatory Gap.,Tim Crane
3. Explanation, Emergence and Causality: Comments on Crane.,Michele Di Francesco
4. Is Nonreductive Physicalism Viable Within a Causal Powers Metaphysic?,Timothy O'Connor and John Ross Churchill
5. Exclusion and Physicalism: Comments on O'Connor and Churchill.,Stephan Leuenberger
6. Emergent Causation and Property Causation.,Paul Noordhof
7. Emergence: Laws and Properties: Comments On Noordhof.,Simone Gozzano
8. The Causal Autonomy of the Special Sciences.,Peter Menzies and Christian List
9. Causal and Explanatory Autonomy: A Reply to Menzies and List.,Ausonio Marras and Juhani Yli-Vakkuri
10. Emergence and Downward Causation.,Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald
11. Identity With a Difference: Comments on Macdonald and Macdonald.,Peter Wyss
12. Can Any Sciences Be Special?,David Papineau
13. Can Any Sciences be Special? Comment on Papineau.,Mlóú