Social emergence: functional or relational

This paper outlines a relational variety of the theory of emergence and claims that it can be applied more fruit-fully to sociology than the functional variety advocated by Keith Sawyer. Sawyer argues that the wildly disjunctive multiple realizability of social properties justifies a nonreductive ap...

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Main Author: Dave Elder-Vass
Format: Default Article
Published: 2014
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Other human society not elsewhere classified
Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified
Emergence
Multiple realizability
Reductionism
Critical realism
Mechanisms
Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/17417
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