The nature of the human person has been a subject of fascination since ancient times. We
desire to understand ourselves and our place in the world, and at times we also look at …

Can we expect our scientific theories to make up a unified structure, or do they form a kind
of" patchwork" whose pieces remain independent from each other? Does the proliferation of …

Weak emergence is the view that a system's macro properties can be explained by its micro
properties but only in an especially complicated way. This paper explains a version of weak …

The aim of this chapter is, on the one hand, to dismantle the idea that there can be such a
thing as a virtual agency that is “less serious” than the real one, and on the other hand, to …

The aim of this work is to argue for the idea that processes and process-based entities are to
be modelled as relational structures. Relational structures are genuine structures, namely …

This paper outlines a relational variety of the theory of emergence and claims that it can be
applied more fruit-fully to sociology than the functional variety advocated by Keith Sawyer …

Emergence is of great interest to both philosophers and scientists today, with much attention
given to its role in contemporary sciences (Newmann 1996; Bedau 1997; Laughlin and …

Mit dem Begriff der Theoriennachbarschaft und einer darauf aufbauenden neuen Definition
von Reduktion ermöglicht diese Arbeit eine angemessene Beschreibung und Einteilung der …

El artículo no es sino una revisión metateórica respecto a la operatividad de los
reduccionismos metodológicos, epistémicos y ontológicos en la investigación psicoclínica …

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in
it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. Henri Poincaré In this essay, we briefly survey …