{"product_id":"emergence-and-convergence-qualitative-novelty-and-the-unity-of-knowledge-9781442628212","title":"Emergence and Convergence: Qualitative Novelty and the Unity of Knowledge","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo problems continually arise in the sciences and humanities, according to Mario Bunge: parts and wholes and the origin of novelty. In \u003ci\u003eEmergence and Convergence\u003c\/i\u003e, he works to address these problems, as well as that of systems and their emergent properties, as exemplified by the synthesis of molecules, the creation of ideas, and social inventions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, Bunge examines further topical problems, such as the search for the mechanisms underlying observable facts, the limitations of both individualism and holism, the reach of reduction, the abuses of Darwinism, the rational choice-hermeneutics feud, the modularity of the brain vs. the unity of the mind, the cluster of concepts around 'maybe, ' the uselessness of many-worlds metaphysics and semantics, the hazards posed by Bayesianism, the nature of partial truth, the obstacles to correct medical diagnosis, and the formal conditions for the emergence of a cross-discipline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBunge is not interested in idle fantasies, but about many of the problems that occur in any discipline that studies reality or ways to control it. His work is about the merger of initially independent lines of inquiry, such as developmental evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, and socio-economics. Bunge proposes a clear definition of the concept of emergence to replace that of supervenience and clarifies the notions of system, real possibility, inverse problem, interdiscipline, and partial truth that occur in all fields. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mario Bunge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442628212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBunge, Mario:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMario Bunge\u003c\/b\u003e is the Frothingham Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44788709818483,"sku":"9781442628212","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_848bac41-9a41-4c02-a0ad-3174a5cb7fd5.jpg?v=1776372097","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/emergence-and-convergence-qualitative-novelty-and-the-unity-of-knowledge-9781442628212","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}