Emergent Evolution

Author : David Blitz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401580427

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Emergent evolution combines three separate but related claims, whose background, origin, and development I trace in this work: firstly, that evolution is a universal process of change, one which is productive of qualitative novelties; secondly, that qualitative novelty is the emergence in a system of a property not possessed by any of its parts; and thirdly, that reality can be analyzed into levels, each consisting of systems characterized by significant emergent properties. In part one I consider the background to emergence in the 19th century discussion of the philosophy of evolution among its leading exponents in England - Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, T. H. Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace, and G. J. Romanes. Unlike the scientific aspect of the debate which aimed to determine the factors and causal mechanism of biological evolution, this aspect of the debate centered on more general problems which form what I call the "philosophical framework for evolutionary theory." This considers the status of continuity and discontinuity in evolution, the role of qualitative and quantitative factors in change, the relation between the organic and the inorganic, the relation between the natural and the supernatural, the mind-body problem, and the scope of evolution, including its extension to ethics and morals.

Author : C. Lloyd Morgan
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781447494904

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A fascinating series of lectures given at the university of St. Andrews in 1922. The lectures cover the topics of mental and no-mental emergence, relatedness, reference, memory, images, towards, reality and causation and causality. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : William Morton Wheeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Evolution
ISBN : UIUC:30112112478612

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Emergent Evolution and the Development of Societies by William Morton Wheeler Pdf

Author : William McDougall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317275091

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Modern Materialism and Emergent Evolution by William McDougall Pdf

Originally published in 1929, McDougall examines the pertinent conflict between religion and science. His work exhibits the failure of scientists to explain human action mechanistically (the essence of modern materialism), establishes purposive action as a type of event radically different from all mechanistic events, and justifies the belief in teleological causation without which there can be neither religion nor morals. This title will be of interest to students of both the Humanities and Sciences, particularly those studying psychology and philosophy.

Author : Robert G. B. Reid
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262264426

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Biological Emergences by Robert G. B. Reid Pdf

A critique of selectionism and the proposal of an alternate theory of emergent evolution that is causally sufficient for evolutionary biology. Natural selection is commonly interpreted as the fundamental mechanism of evolution. Questions about how selection theory can claim to be the all-sufficient explanation of evolution often go unanswered by today's neo-Darwinists, perhaps for fear that any criticism of the evolutionary paradigm will encourage creationists and proponents of intelligent design. In Biological Emergences, Robert Reid argues that natural selection is not the cause of evolution. He writes that the causes of variations, which he refers to as natural experiments, are independent of natural selection; indeed, he suggests, natural selection may get in the way of evolution. Reid proposes an alternative theory to explain how emergent novelties are generated and under what conditions they can overcome the resistance of natural selection. He suggests that what causes innovative variation causes evolution, and that these phenomena are environmental as well as organismal. After an extended critique of selectionism, Reid constructs an emergence theory of evolution, first examining the evidence in three causal arenas of emergent evolution: symbiosis/association, evolutionary physiology/behavior, and developmental evolution. Based on this evidence of causation, he proposes some working hypotheses, examining mechanisms and processes common to all three arenas, and arrives at a theoretical framework that accounts for generative mechanisms and emergent qualities. Without selectionism, Reid argues, evolutionary innovation can more easily be integrated into a general thesis. Finally, Reid proposes a biological synthesis of rapid emergent evolutionary phases and the prolonged, dynamically stable, non-evolutionary phases imposed by natural selection.

Author : Nam C Kim,Marc Kissel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351365772

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Emergent Warfare in Our Evolutionary Past by Nam C Kim,Marc Kissel Pdf

Why do we fight? Have we always been fighting one another? This book examines the origins and development of human forms of organized violence from an anthropological and archaeological perspective. Kim and Kissel argue that human warfare is qualitatively different from forms of lethal, intergroup violence seen elsewhere in the natural world, and that its emergence is intimately connected to how humans evolved and to the emergence of human nature itself.

Author : Conwy Lloyd Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Evolution
ISBN : UOM:39015062279362

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Author : Raymond L. Neubauer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780231150705

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Evolution and the Emergent Self by Raymond L. Neubauer Pdf

This book examines how humans evolved from the cosmos and prebiotic earth and what types of biological, chemical, and physical sciences drove this complex process. The author presents his view of nature which attributes the rising complexity of life to the continual increasing of information content, first in genes and then in brains.

Author : Jim Macnamara
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 1433109360

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The 21st Century Media (r)evolution by Jim Macnamara Pdf

The emergence of 'new media' and social media is widely discussed in contemporary society. However, media and public communication are mostly analyzed within particular theoretical frameworks and within specific disciplinary fields. Such approaches have created polarized views on media and communication, and fail to create an understanding of the interdependencies between these fields. This book expertly synthesizes competing theories and disciplinary viewpoints, integrates scholarly and cutting edge research, and examines international data from fast-growing markets including China, to provide a comprehensive, holistic view of the twenty-first century (r)evolution in media and public communication. The book identifies how the changes are located in practices rather than technologies and that these practices are emergent in highly significant ways. Engaging and accessible, the book is essential reading for media scholars and communication professionals, and a valuable text for courses in media studies, journalism, advertising, public relations, and organisational and political communication.

Author : Charles Birch,John B. Cobb
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1985-01-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 052131514X

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The Liberation of Life by Charles Birch,John B. Cobb Pdf

This book is about the liberation of the concept of life from the bondage fashioned by the interpreters of life ever since biology began, and about the liberation of the life of humans and non-humans alike from the bondage of social structures and behaviour, which now threatens the fullness of life's possibilities if not survival itself. It falls into a tradition of writings about human problems from a perspective informed by biology. It rejects the mechanistic model of life dominant in the Western world and develops an alternative 'ecological model' which is applicable to the life of the cell and the life of the human community. For the first time it brings together in one work the insights of modern biology with those of a modern holistic philosophy and a liberal theology in a way which challenges conventional approaches to science, agriculture, sociology, politics, economics, development and liberation movements.

Author : David Blitz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 940158043X

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Emergent Evolution by David Blitz Pdf

This volume examines the background, origin, and debate over emergent evolution, a philosophy of evolution developed by the comparative psychologist C. Lloyd Morgan. Part One studies the 19th century background in the debate over the philosophical framework for evolutionary theory in the writings of Darwin, Spencer, Huxley, Wallace, and G.J. Romanes. Questions examined include the continuity of the evolutionary process, the status of qualitative as well as quantitative change, the scope of evolution, and its metaphysical implications. Part Two traces Lloyd Morgan's development of emergent evolution as a philosophy relating the various sciences, and its main thesis that qualitative novelty can occur in the course of a continuous, universal and monistic evolutionary process, proceeding from the material level to those of life and mind. The third part traces the debate over emergent evolution, and argues that, despite its temporary eclipse by reductionist and physicalist philosophies in the period from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, emergent evolution is an active trend of thought at the interface between philosophy and science.

Author : William Morton Wheeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Evolution
ISBN : OCLC:999936

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Emergent Evolution and the Development of Societies by William Morton Wheeler Pdf

Author : David Blitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Evolution
ISBN : OCLC:427544240

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Emergent Evolution by David Blitz Pdf

"This dissertation considers the history and philosophy of emergent evolution, and in particular the attempt to answer the question of the role of qualitative novelty in the evolutionary process. Chapter one examines the background to the theory of emergent evolution in the work of Charles Darwin. It is argued that Darwin's theory is neither tautologous nor revolutionary, and the application of Thomas Kuhn's theory of scientific revolution to the case of Darwinian evolution is criticized. Chapter two analyzes the work of the comparative psychologist Conwy Lloyd Morgan, and his views on qualitative novelty are compared with those of other major contemporaneous emergentist theorists: Samuel Alexander, C. D. Broad and Roy Wood Sellars. Chapter three discusses the history of emergent evolution as a philosophical trend, up to and including the emergent materialism of Mario Bunge. An alternative emergentist view of the level structure of reality based on the four levels of matter, life, society and mind is proposed in the conclusion." --

Author : Philip Chase
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387306742

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The Emergence of Culture by Philip Chase Pdf

This book describes the emergent nature of human culture, based on the human ability to create and pass on social codes through instruction and example. It proposes hypotheses to explain how a phenomenon that is potentially maladaptive for individuals could have evolved, and to explain why culture plays such a pervasive role in human life. It then reviews the primatological, fossil, and archaeological data to test these hypotheses.

Author : Scott L. Bain
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Computer software
ISBN : 0321509366

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Emergent Design by Scott L. Bain Pdf

Spells out an ultra-contemporary, completely realistic, and thoroughly actionable approach toward the software development lifecycle.