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Emergents from Fusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Hong Yu Wong
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Abstract

This is a critical discussion of Paul Humphreys's fusion view of emergence, focusing on the basal loss feature of his ontology. The discussion yields some general morals for special science ontology.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 73 , Issue 3 , July 2006 , pp. 345 - 367
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Footnotes

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I am grateful to the editor, Paul Humphreys, Timothy O'Connor, Krisztina Orbán, Paul Snowdon, and Georg Theiner for discussion and comments, and to Michael Martin for valuable advice on restructuring.

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