Top-down causation and social structures

Interface Focus

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 82-90

  Elder Vass, Dave ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Downward causation; Emergence; Norm circles; Social ontology; Social structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860904531     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2011.0055     Document Type: Article

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