Between Physicalism and Mentalism: Philip Clayton on Mind and Emergence

Abstract. Philip Clayton's work on emergence is a valuable contribution to the fields of religion, science, and philosophy. I focus on three narrow but extremely important areas of Clayton's work. First, Clayton deems that Terrence Deacon's emergence theory is difficult to accept beca...

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Main Author: Haag, James W. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2006
In: Zygon
Year: 2006, Volume: 41, Issue: 3, Pages: 633-648
Further subjects:B Phenomenology
B Thermodynamics
B teleodynamics
B Emergence
B weak supervenience
B strong supervenience
B morphodynamics
B emergentist supervenience
B agent causation
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