Top-down causation: An integrating theme within and across the sciences?

Interface Focus

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-3

  Ellis, George F R ^a   Noble, Denis ^a   O'Connor, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biocomplexity; Emergence; Epiphenomenalism; Top down causation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860911522     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2011.0110     Document Type: Article

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