Trois essays sur l'emergence by Jaegwon Kim and translated by Mathieu Mulcey - ISBN 9782916120025 - Ithaque 2006
Motivation
Discovered in Librairie Philosophique J. VRIN while looking for work in cognitive science and emergent phenomena, especially related to complexity and complex systems.
Reading
- to write down
- include the schema on downward causality from the preface
See also
- Notes de Cours sur la théorie de l'émergence by Jules Henri Greber
- Jaegwon Kim according to french Wikipedia
- Colloque Origines de la vie : auto-organisation et/ou évolution biologique ?, ENS 2008
- discussion on complexity and auto-organisation
- a previous conference (probably ENS, France Culture or Radio Academie) on feedback loops and biology, how reducibility might be a dead end
- Claude Bernard's homeostasis concept
Overall remarks and questions
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