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Record Nr.

UNINA9911044020903321

Autore

Porpora Douglas V

Titolo

The Question of Emergence : Sociology vs. Physics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2025

©2026

ISBN

1-04-075958-0

1-04-075965-3

1-003-64959-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 pages)

Collana

Routledge Studies in Critical Realism Series

Disciplina

116

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book takes the relationship between physics and sociology as its subject, focussing on the philosophical dispute between emergentism and reductionism. It argues that the mystery behind emergence disappears when we abandon the lawful understanding of causality, in favour of a powers view.