![]() ![]() To her, and to the superbly professional staV at Oxford University Press, we express our thanks. ![]() Lucy Qureshi had the vision for a volume that would be both rigorous in its presentation of the relevant scientiWc results and bold to engage in philosophical and theological reXection on the basis of these results. Wojciech Zurek (a laboratory fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory). Harold Morowitz (the Clarence Robinson Professor of Biology and Natural Philosophy at George Mason University and a member of its Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study) and Dr. Charles Harper (Executive Director and Senior Vice President at The John Templeton Foundation) Dr. Peter Fromherz (Director of the Department of Membrane and Neurophysics at the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried/Munich and an honorary professor of physics at the Technical University of Munich) Dr. Rodney Brooks (Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science and Director of the ArtiWcial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Dr. Although not explicitly represented in these pages, several other scholars were present at the original consultation and made substantive contributions to the background research that eventually led to these chapters. Mary Ann Meyers, Director of the ‘Humble Approach Initiative’ programme at the Foundation, for her unfailingly professional work in organizing the conference, and her ongoing support of the eVorts that resulted in the present book. We gratefully acknowledge this Wnancial support, without which this volume would not have come to press. The consultation was generously sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation. Emergence from Quantum Physics to Religion: A Critical Appraisal Philip Clayton Notes on Contributors IndexĪcknowledgments The present volume was conceived in August, 2002, during a three-day consultation on emergence in Granada, Spain, at which most of the authors were present. Emergence: What is at Stake for Religious ReXection? Niels Henrik Gregersen 14. Emergence, Mind, and Divine Action: The Hierarchy of the Sciences in Relation to the Human Mind–Brain–Body Arthur Peacocke 13. Emergence and Mental Causation Nancey Murphy 11. In Defence of Ontological Emergence and Mental Causation Michael Silberstein 10. Being Realistic about Emergence Jaegwon Kim 9. Emergence in Social Evolution: A Great Ape Example Barbara Smuts Emergence: The Hole at the Wheel’s Hub Terrence W. On the Nature of Emergent Reality George F. The Emergence of Classicality from Quantum Theory Erich Joos 4. The Physics of Downward Causation Paul C. Conceptual Foundations of Emergence Theory Philip Clayton E44R44 2006 501–dc22 2006009453 Typeset by SPI Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Biddles Ltd, King’s Lynn, Norfolk ISBN 0–19–928714–7Ĭontents Acknowledgements Preface Paul C. Includes bibliographical references and index. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose the same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data The reemergence of emergence : the emergentist hypothesis from science to religion/edited by Philip Clayton and Paul Davies. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York ß Oxford University Press 2006 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2006 All rights reserved. Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. The Re-Emergence of Emergence The Emergentist Hypothesis from Science to ReligionĮdited by P H I L I P C L AY TO N A N D PAU L DAV I E S T H E R E - E M E RG E N C E O F E M E RG E N C E ![]()
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