On Contextual and Ontological Aspects of Emergence and Reduction

Céspedes, Esteban

Abstract

Although the interest about emergence has grown during the last years, there does not seem to be consensus on whether it is a non-trivial and interesting notion and whether the concept of reduction is relevant to its characterization. Another key issue is whether emergence should be understood as an epistemic notion or if there is a plausible ontological concept of emergence. The aim of this work is to propose an epistemic notion of contextual emergence based on which one may tackle those issues.

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Título de la Revista: EIDOS
Editorial: Universidad del Norte
Fecha de publicación: 2019
Notas: Scopus, Scielo