Emergence, Reduction & Supervenience

Selected Readings:

Bonevac, Daniel A. Reduction in the Abstract Sciences. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1982.

Broad, C. D. The Mind and Its Place. London: Routledge and Kegal Paul, 1925.

Causey, Robert L. Unity of Science. Dordreht: Reidel, 1977.

Churchland, Patricia. Neurophilosophy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986, ch. 7.

Humphreys, Paul W. “How Properties Emerge,” in Philosophy of Science 64 (1997): 1-17.

Kim, Jaegwon. Supervenience and Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
________. “Multiple Realization and the Metaphysics of Reduction,” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1992): 309-35.

Menuge, Angus. Agents Under Fire: Materialism and the Rationality of Science. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. See especially pp. 4-94.

Moreland, J. P. “God and the Argument from Mind,” in Scaling the Secular City, by J.P. Moreland, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, (1987): 77-103. See especially pp. 96-103.
________. & Craig, William Lane. Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press, 2003. See especially the discussion pp 199-203.

Paul, Cranston, and Sider, Theodore. “In Defense of Global Supervenience,” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 32 (1992): 830-45.

Quine, W.V. “Ontological Reduction and the World of Numbers,” in Journal of Philosophy 61 (1964): 209-16.

Savellos, Elias and Yalcin, Umit, eds. Supervenience: New Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Stalnaker, Robert. “Varieties of Supervenience,” in Philosophical Perspectives 10 (1996): 221-41.

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