The central insight of Darwin's Origin of Species is that evolution is an ecological
phenomenon, arising from the activities of organisms in the'struggle for life'. By contrast, the …

As we start to fall asleep, the sense of self slackens. Images float by, and our awareness
becomes progressively absorbed in them. The impression of being a bounded individual …

The world appears to contain diverse kinds of objects and systems—planets, tornadoes,
trees, ant colonies, and human persons, to name but a few—characterized by distinctive …

I first met Wolfgang Yourgrau in the spring of 1950 at a philosophical congress held at the
University of Cape Town. The congress, which was said to be the first of its kind ever held in …

Interest in emergence amongst philosophers and scientists has grown in recent years, yet
the concept continues to be viewed with skepticism by many. In this book, Paul Humphreys …

What does it mean to be a person? The philosophical problem of personal identity has been
the subject of much debate in both Western philosophy and Buddhist philosophy. This book …

The complexity of the human mind and its interaction with the environment is one of the main
epistemological debates throughout history. Recent ideas, framed as the 4E perspective to …

In Contingent Computation, M. Beatrice Fazi offers a new theoretical perspective through
which we can engage philosophically with computing. The book proves that aesthetics is a …

Science, philosophy of science, and metaphysics have long been concerned with the
question of how order, stability, and novelty are possible and how they happen. How can …

In this paper, we put forward a new account of emergence called “transformational
emergence”. Such an account captures a variety of emergence that can be considered as …