Author: William M. Wheeler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780849557026
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Emergent Evolution and the Development of Societies
Author: William Morton Wheeler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Emergent Evolution and the Development of Societies
Author: William M. Wheeler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780849557026
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780849557026
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Emergent Evolution and the Development of Societies
Author: William Morton Wheeler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Emergent Evolution and the Development of Societies
Author: William Morton Wheeler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Emergent Evolution
Author: David Blitz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401580421
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401580421
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
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.
Nature's Economy
Author: Donald Worster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521468343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past, first published in 1994.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521468343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past, first published in 1994.
Emergent Evolution
Author: David Blitz
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789401580434
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789401580434
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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.
Emergent Evolution
Author: Conwy Lloyd Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Emergent Evolution
Author: C. Lloyd Morgan
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447494903
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447494903
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
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.
Modern Materialism and Emergent Evolution
Author: William McDougall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317275098
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317275098
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
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.