Reductive and Nonreductive Physicalism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Reductive and Nonreductive Physicalism 1
3. Part I
4. Emergence – A Systematic View on its Historical Facets 25
5. The Rise and Fall of British Emergentism 49
6. Supervenience, Emergence, and Reduction 94
7. “Downward Causation” in Emergentism and Nonreductive Physicalism 119
8. A Contemporary Look at Emergence 139
9. Part II
10. Nonreductive Materialism and the Nature of Intertheoretical Constraint 157
11. Subjectivity and Knowing What It’s Like 180
12. Physiology, Phenomenology, and Spinoza’s True Colors 201
13. Qualia and Brain Processes 220
14. Part III
15. Understanding Complexity 241
16. Emergent Phenomena and Complex Systems 257
17. On the Way to a Theory of Antireductionist Arguments 289
18. Name Index 303
19. Subject Index 307