Conceptualising Reduction, Emergence and Self-Organisation in Complex Dynamical Systems

Philosophy of Complex Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 195-222

  Hooker, Cliff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-52076-0.50007-9     Document Type: Chapter

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