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Emergence

A topic within Metaphysics, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.

Reading on Emergence

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Book1923

Emergent Evolution

C. Lloyd Morgan

Sets out emergent evolution as a middle path between mechanism and vitalism, arguing that genuinely new kinds of relatedness, from life out of matter to mind out of life, appear at each level without any added substance.

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Book1925

The Mind and Its Place in Nature

C. D. Broad

Sets out emergent evolution — the view that higher-level properties like mentality are genuinely novel and not deducible even in principle from the arrangement of their lower-level parts.

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