The search for ontological emergence

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 49, Issue 195, 1999, Pages 201-214

  Silberstein, Michael ^a   Mcgeever, John ^a  

^a ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0001602526     PISSN: 00318094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9213.00136     Document Type: Article

References (26)

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4. For details, see A. Beckermann et al., Emergence or Reduction? Essays on the Prospects of Nonreductive Physicalism (New York: De Gruyter, 1992)
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