Well, you might also look at Miller/Page's Complex Adaptive Systems
book. It has quite a bit on emergence. As does our standard source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
The Bedau and Humphreys book you've found looked promising.
It's interesting that looking for emergence in Amazon shows several
SFI related authors and books. Holland's Emergence: From Chaos to
Order, and Hidden Order both show up, as does Morowitz: The Emergence
of Everything, and Strogatz's Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos.
I'd not suggest Yet Another Physics Is Unreal Rant. Physics is real.
I live in it. "Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts?" sounds
fishy. OK, I'm biased.
-- Owen
On Apr 28, 2009, at 8:38 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
I am told on Higher Authority that I cannot think about emergence
any more before I have read the following reference:
Cartwright, Nancy D. "Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts?"
Pacific Philosophy Quarterly, 61, 1980 (pp 64-75). Reprinted in The
Philosophy of Science Reader, 1980, Yuri V. Balashov (ed).
Routledge Press. Reprinted in Philosophy of Science: The Central
Issues, 1998, Martin Curd and J.A. Cover (ed). Norton & Company Inc.
Also in Readings on Laws of Nature, 2004 J.W.Carroll (ed).
University of Pittsburgh Press.
Does anybody have a copy? Ingenta has it, but they want big bucks
for it.
N
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