Formal Approaches to the Ontology & Epistemology of Resilience Update 2018Q3

PI(s), Co-PI(s), Researchers: John Symons

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Metaphysical and scientific approaches to emergence: Varieties of fundamentality and theoretical completeness in Saurabh Mittal, Saikou Diallo, Andreas Tolk (eds.) Emergent Behavior in Complex Systems Engineering: A Modeling and Simulation Approach Wiley (2018) pp. 1-32

Abstract: The concept of emergence figures prominently in contemporary science. It has roots in philosophical reflection on the nature of fundamentality and novelty that took place in the early decades of the Twentieth Century. While it is no longer necessary to offer philosophical defenses of the science of emergent properties, attention to basic metaphysical questions remains important for engineering and scientific purposes. Most importantly, this chapter argues for precision with respect to what scientists and engineers takes to count as fundamental for the sake of their uses of the concept of emergence.

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