Emergence, reduction and supervenience: a varied landscape

DOI10.1007/s10701-011-9549-0zbMath1226.00035arXiv1106.0704OpenAlexW2108592764MaRDI QIDQ649890

Publication date: 25 November 2011

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.0704

zbMATH Keywords

reduction emergence Nagel supervenience Beth's theorem definitional extension multiple realisability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Methodology of mathematics (00A35) Physics (00A79)

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