Download or read book Some Implications of Emergent Evolution written by Herbert Spencer Jennings and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emergent Evolution written by Conwy Lloyd Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emergent Evolution and the Social written by William Morton Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emergent Evolution written by C. Lloyd Morgan and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating series of lectures given at the university of St. Andrews in 1922. The lectures cover the topics of mental and no-mental emergence, relatedness, reference, memory, images, towards, reality and causation and causality. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Emergent Evolution written by David Blitz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emergent evolution combines three separate but related claims, whose background, origin, and development I trace in this work: firstly, that evolution is a universal process of change, one which is productive of qualitative novelties; secondly, that qualitative novelty is the emergence in a system of a property not possessed by any of its parts; and thirdly, that reality can be analyzed into levels, each consisting of systems characterized by significant emergent properties. In part one I consider the background to emergence in the 19th century discussion of the philosophy of evolution among its leading exponents in England - Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, T. H. Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace, and G. J. Romanes. Unlike the scientific aspect of the debate which aimed to determine the factors and causal mechanism of biological evolution, this aspect of the debate centered on more general problems which form what I call the "philosophical framework for evolutionary theory." This considers the status of continuity and discontinuity in evolution, the role of qualitative and quantitative factors in change, the relation between the organic and the inorganic, the relation between the natural and the supernatural, the mind-body problem, and the scope of evolution, including its extension to ethics and morals.
Download or read book Emergent Evolution written by David Blitz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the background, origin, and debate over emergent evolution, a philosophy of evolution developed by the comparative psychologist C. Lloyd Morgan. Part One studies the 19th century background in the debate over the philosophical framework for evolutionary theory in the writings of Darwin, Spencer, Huxley, Wallace, and G.J. Romanes. Questions examined include the continuity of the evolutionary process, the status of qualitative as well as quantitative change, the scope of evolution, and its metaphysical implications. Part Two traces Lloyd Morgan's development of emergent evolution as a philosophy relating the various sciences, and its main thesis that qualitative novelty can occur in the course of a continuous, universal and monistic evolutionary process, proceeding from the material level to those of life and mind. The third part traces the debate over emergent evolution, and argues that, despite its temporary eclipse by reductionist and physicalist philosophies in the period from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, emergent evolution is an active trend of thought at the interface between philosophy and science.
Download or read book Biological Emergences written by Robert G. B. Reid and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of selectionism and the proposal of an alternate theory of emergent evolution that is causally sufficient for evolutionary biology. Natural selection is commonly interpreted as the fundamental mechanism of evolution. Questions about how selection theory can claim to be the all-sufficient explanation of evolution often go unanswered by today's neo-Darwinists, perhaps for fear that any criticism of the evolutionary paradigm will encourage creationists and proponents of intelligent design. In Biological Emergences, Robert Reid argues that natural selection is not the cause of evolution. He writes that the causes of variations, which he refers to as natural experiments, are independent of natural selection; indeed, he suggests, natural selection may get in the way of evolution. Reid proposes an alternative theory to explain how emergent novelties are generated and under what conditions they can overcome the resistance of natural selection. He suggests that what causes innovative variation causes evolution, and that these phenomena are environmental as well as organismal. After an extended critique of selectionism, Reid constructs an emergence theory of evolution, first examining the evidence in three causal arenas of emergent evolution: symbiosis/association, evolutionary physiology/behavior, and developmental evolution. Based on this evidence of causation, he proposes some working hypotheses, examining mechanisms and processes common to all three arenas, and arrives at a theoretical framework that accounts for generative mechanisms and emergent qualities. Without selectionism, Reid argues, evolutionary innovation can more easily be integrated into a general thesis. Finally, Reid proposes a biological synthesis of rapid emergent evolutionary phases and the prolonged, dynamically stable, non-evolutionary phases imposed by natural selection.
Download or read book Emergent Evolution and the Development of Societies written by William M. Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1979-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emergent Evolution and the Development of Societies written by William Morton Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emergent Evolution written by Conwy L. Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1977-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emergent Evolution and the Development of Societies written by William Morton Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emergent Evolution written by David Blitz and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This dissertation considers the history and philosophy of emergent evolution, and in particular the attempt to answer the question of the role of qualitative novelty in the evolutionary process. Chapter one examines the background to the theory of emergent evolution in the work of Charles Darwin. It is argued that Darwin's theory is neither tautologous nor revolutionary, and the application of Thomas Kuhn's theory of scientific revolution to the case of Darwinian evolution is criticized. Chapter two analyzes the work of the comparative psychologist Conwy Lloyd Morgan, and his views on qualitative novelty are compared with those of other major contemporaneous emergentist theorists: Samuel Alexander, C. D. Broad and Roy Wood Sellars. Chapter three discusses the history of emergent evolution as a philosophical trend, up to and including the emergent materialism of Mario Bunge. An alternative emergentist view of the level structure of reality based on the four levels of matter, life, society and mind is proposed in the conclusion." --
Download or read book Exposition and Critical Analysis of Emergent Evolution written by Clifford A. Winter and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emergent Evolution and the Social written by William Morton 1865-1937 N Wheeler and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concept of emergent evolution, which posits that higher levels of organization and complexity can arise from lower levels. The authors argue that this idea has important implications for understanding social systems, and they provide examples from various fields to support their argument. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Evolutionary Theory written by Robert G. B. Reid and published by Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emergent Evolution and the Scientific Method written by David L. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Purpose in the Living World written by Jacob Klapwijk and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Klapwijk offers the theory of emergent evolution as a way of bridging the gap between creationism and evolutionary science.
