LEADER 04806nam 2200781 450 001 9910450545503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-99234-8 010 $a9786611992347 010 $a1-4426-7435-0 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442674356 035 $a(CKB)1000000000015067 035 $a(EBL)3255127 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000295003 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11235899 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000295003 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10314161 035 $a(PQKB)11701576 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00601020 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255127 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671466 035 $a(DE-B1597)464436 035 $a(OCoLC)1013939202 035 $a(OCoLC)944178194 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442674356 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671466 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257176 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL199234 035 $a(OCoLC)958571504 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000015067 100 $a20160921h20032003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEmergence and convergence $equalitative novelty and the unity of knowledge /$fMario Bunge 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2003. 210 4$dİ2003 215 $a1 online resource (345 p.) 225 1 $aToronto Studies in Philosophy 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4426-2821-9 311 $a0-8020-8860-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart I: Emergence -- $t1. Part and Whole, Resultant and Emergent -- $t2. System Emergence and Submergence -- $t3. The Systemic Approach -- $t4. Semiotic and Communication Systems -- $t5. Society and Artefact -- $t6. Individualism and Holism: Theoretical -- $t7. Individualism and Holism: Practical -- $t8. Three Views of Society -- $tPart II: Convergence -- $t9. Reduction and Reductionism -- $t10. A Pack of Failed Reductionist Projects -- $t11. Why Integration Succeeds in Social Studies -- $t12. Functional Convergence: The Case of Mental Functions -- $t13. Stealthy Convergence: Rational-choice Theory and Hermeneutics -- $t14. Convergence as Confusion: The Case of 'Maybe' -- $t15. Emergence of Truth and Convergence to Truth -- $t16. Emergence of Disease and Convergence of the Biomedical Sciences -- $t17. The Emergence of Convergence and Divergence -- $tGlossary -- $tReferences -- $tIndex of Names -- $tIndex of Subjects 330 $aTwo problems continually arise in the sciences and humanities, according to Mario Bunge: parts and wholes and the origin of novelty. In Emergence and Convergence, he works to address these problems, as well as that of systems and their emergent properties, as exemplified by the synthesis of molecules, the creation of ideas, and social inventions.Along the way, Bunge examines further topical problems, such as the search for the mechanisms underlying observable facts, the limitations of both individualism and holism, the reach of reduction, the abuses of Darwinism, the rational choice-hermeneutics feud, the modularity of the brain vs. the unity of the mind, the cluster of concepts around 'maybe,' the uselessness of many-worlds metaphysics and semantics, the hazards posed by Bayesianism, the nature of partial truth, the obstacles to correct medical diagnosis, and the formal conditions for the emergence of a cross-discipline.Bunge is not interested in idle fantasies, but about many of the problems that occur in any discipline that studies reality or ways to control it. His work is about the merger of initially independent lines of inquiry, such as developmental evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, and socio-economics. Bunge proposes a clear definition of the concept of emergence to replace that of supervenience and clarifies the notions of system, real possibility, inverse problem, interdiscipline, and partial truth that occur in all fields. 410 0$aToronto studies in philosophy. 606 $aSystem theory 606 $aEvolution 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of 606 $aInterdisciplinary approach to knowledge 606 $aSocial epistemology 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSystem theory. 615 0$aEvolution. 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of. 615 0$aInterdisciplinary approach to knowledge. 615 0$aSocial epistemology. 676 $a001/.01 700 $aBunge$b Mario$f1919-$040460 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450545503321 996 $aEmergence and convergence$92472976 997 $aUNINA