Emergence: Logical, functional and dynamical

Synthese

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 171-186

  Mitchell, Sandra D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Downward causation; Emergence; Feedback; Reduction; Self organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859110554     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-010-9719-1     Document Type: Article

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