The reductive physicalism of Jaegwon Kim (2005) states that the world can be explained in
terms of particles of matter and aggregates of particles of matter conforming with the laws of …

Physicalism is an attempt to explain how we are to understand ourselves and our place in
the world. Its failure leaves that question still hanging. The way our metaphysical taxonomy …

This book argues that a plausible account of emergence requires replacing the traditional
assumption that what primarily exists are particular entities with generic processes …

This thesis traces a thread that runs through emergentism in analytical philosophy and the
thought of five philosophers: Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Charles Taylor, John …

This essay is an attempt to refine Mark Pharoah's synthetic framework (2018) that provides
an objective account of the emergence of subjective experience. My interpretation of his …

How can human agency be reconciled with bio-physical determinism? Starting with a
discussion of the long standing debate between determinism and agency, we argue that the …

Gregory Bateson posited that'the major problems in the world are the result of the difference
between how nature works and the way people think'(N. Bateson, 2011). This difference is …

This book presents a series of ontological investigations into an adequate theory of
embodiment for the social sciences. Informed by a new realist philosophy of causal powers …

Life is a relationship among various kinds of agents interacting at different scales in ways
that are multifarious, complex, and emergent. Life is always a part of an ecological …

In this book, I examine three facets of a paradigm shift that are suggested in the work of
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jane Addams, and John Dewey. The first facet of the paradigm …