Revisiting and defending a key doctrine of the once widely accepted school of philosophy known as emergentism, Gerald Vision proposes that conscious states are emergents, although they depend for their exsitence on their material bases.
This book argues that a plausible account of emergence requires replacing the traditional assumption that what primarily exists are particular entities with generic processes. Traversing contemporary physics and issues of identity over time, it then proceeds to develop a metaphy…
Complexity and emergence (the appearance and impact of the new) can be the bane of managers and their organizations. Both complexity and emergence threaten to upset adherence to predefined categories, which supposedly allows for efficiency. Indeed, traditional management thinkin…
