We are grateful to Paul Humphreys (University of Virginia) for blogging this week on his book Emergence, new from Oxford University Press. To view all his posts on a single page, click here.
2. The Origin of the Universe Argument
Yesterday we saw, via an example from social psychology, that diachronic approaches to emergence can avoid some of the major problems of synchronic approaches. That motivating example is not wholly convincing as an example of transformational emergence. Here is what I believe is a more robustly ontological example. The Standard …
