Emergence and Downward Causation

Emergence in Mind

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Macdonald, Cynthia ^a,b   Macdonald, Graham ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Causal relevance; Downward causation; Higher level causation; Non reductive physicalism; Property exemplification account; Psychological explanation; Realization; Supervenience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921259267     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199583621.003.0010     Document Type: Chapter

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