Supplement to Bibliography in Emergence, Mark Bedau and Paul Humphreys (eds). MIT Press 2008.
Abbott, Russ (2006). `Emergence explained: Abstractions: Getting epiphenomena to do
real work.’ Complexity 12, 13-26
Andersen, Peter Bogh et al (2000). Downward Causation. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.
Bedau, Mark A. [2008]: Is weak emergence just in the mind? Minds and Machines, 18,
pp. 443-459. (Argues that weak emergence is not an epistemological concept but is
objective).
Bishop, Robert C. (2008): `Downward Causation in Fluid Convection’, Synthese 160
229-248. (A detailed examination of how Rayleigh-Benard convection provides an
example of downwards constraints).
Bonabeau, E. and J-L Dessalles (2002): `Detection and Emergence’ Intellectica 25, 85-94.
Brown, Robin and James Ladyman (2009). `Physicalism, Supervenience, and the Fundamental Level’,
The Philosophical Quarterly 59, pp. 20-38
Butterfield, Jeremy [2010a]:`Emergence, Reduction, and Supervenience: A Varied Landscape’,
Foundations of Physics (to appear). (A detailed examination of emergence and reduction in physics,
arguing that the two are compatible).
Butterfield, Jeremy [2010b]:`Less is Different: Emergence and Reduction Reconsidered’ Foundations of
Physics (to appear). (A companion to Butterfield 2010a focusing on the relation between infinite
models and finite real systems, phase transitions, etc)
Corradini, Antonella and Timothy O’Connor (eds) [2010]: Emergence in Science and Philosophy. Routledge.
Hendry, Robin (2006): `Is there downward causation in chemistry?’, pp. 173-189 in Philosophy of
Chemistry: Synthesis of a New Discipline. Dordrecht: Springer. (Contains an argument for whole/part
causation based on Born-Oppenheimer models.)
Humphreys, Paul [2008]: `Synchronic and Diachronic Emergence’, Minds and Machines,
18, pp. 431-442 (An assessment of the computational approach to weak emergence)
Hütteman, A. (2004): What’s Wrong with Microphysicalism? London: Routledge. (A clear set of arguments
addressing reduction and emergence.)
Hütteman, A. (2005): `Explanation, emergence, and quantum entanglement’, Philosophy of Science 72, 114127. (A response to Kronz and Tiehen (2002))
Imbert, Cyrille (2006): `Why Diachronically Emergent Properties Must Also Be Salient’ in
Philosophy and Complexity: Essays on Epistemology, Evolution, and Emergence, Carlos
Gershenson, Diederik Aerts, and Bruce Edmonds (eds). Singapore: World Scientific.
Jablonski, David (2007). `Scale and Hierarchy in Macroevolution’, Palaeontology 50, 87-109.
Juarrero, Alicia and Carl A. Rubino [2008]: Emergence, Complexity, and Self-Organization.
Goodyear, AZ: ISCE Publishing. (An excellent collection of classic sources on
emergence including Kant, Mill, Poincar, Bergson, Alexander, Morgan, Broad,
Schrdinger, and Whitehead).
Jun, Joseph K. and Alfred H. Hubler [2005]: `Formation and structure of ramified charge
transportation networks in an electromechanical system’, Proc Nat Acad Sci 102,
536-540. (An example of self-organizing pattern formation in a simple physical
system)
Kronz, F. and J. Tiehen (2002): `Emergence and Quantum Mechanics’, Philosophy of Science
69, 324-347. (A detailed analysis of Humphreys’ paper in the anthology, also providing
an alternative approach).
MacDonald, Cynthia and Graham MacDonald (eds) (2010): Emergence in Mind. Oxford
University Press.
McIntyre, L. (2007): `Emergence and Reduction in Chemistry: Ontological or
Epistemological Concepts?’, Synthese 155, 337-343.
Primas, Hans (1998): `Emergence in Exact Natural Sciences’, Acta Polytechnica
Scandinavica 91, 83-98. (A set of arguments for the contextual nature of emergent
features. Technical, with some acerbic comments about philosophical approaches).
Ryan, Alex J. (2007). `Emergence is coupled to scope, not level’, Complexity 13, 67-77
Schelling, Thomas (1971): `Dynamic Models of Segregation’, Journal of Mathematical Sociology 1,
143-186. (A more formal exposition of Schelling’s models in the anthology.)
Shpak, Max, Peter F. Stadler, Gunter P. Wagner, and Joachim Hermisson [2004]: `Aggregation of
Variables and System Decomposition: Applications to Fitness Landscape Analysis’, Theory in
Biosciences 123, 33-68. (A technical paper on decomposition with some comments on its
relation to emergence in the first couple of sections.)
Stephan, Achim (1999). `Varieties of Emergentism’, Evolution and Cognition 5, 49-59.
Thompson, E. and Varela, F. (2001): `Radical Embodiment: Neural Dynamics and Consciousness.’
TRENDS in Cognitive Science 5 418-425. (Contains an interesting definition of emergence in
terms of nonlinear dynamics).
Uzgalis, William (2009): `Anthony Collins on the Emergence of Consciousness and Personal
Identity’, Philosophy Compass 4, pp. 363-379. (An historical account of an early eighteenth
century British emergentist).
Wong, Hong Yu (2006): `Emergents from Fusion’, Philosophy of Science 73 (A response to Humphreys’
paper in the anthology.)
Yates, David (2009). `Emergence, Downwards Causation, and the Completeness of
Physics’ The Philosophical Quarterly 59, pp. 110-131
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