Forms of emergent interaction in General Process Theory

Synthese

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 479-512

  Seibt, Johanna ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Causation; Emergence; Feedback; Interaction; Mechanism; Mereology; Process ontology; Selfmaintenance

Indexed keywords

EID: 58649101864     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9373-z     Document Type: Article

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