A New Look at Emergence. Or when After is Different

Guay, Alexandre;Sartenaer, Olivier
(2016) European Journal for Philosophy of Science — Vol. 6, p. 297-322 (2016)

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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 being diachronic and weakly ontological. The fact that transformational emergence actually constitutes a genuine form of emergence is motivated. Besides, the account is free of traditional problems surrounding more usual, synchronic versions of emergence, and it can find a strong empirical support in a specific physical phenomenon, the fractional quantum Hall effect, which has long been touted as a paradigmatic case of emergence.
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Guay, A., & Sartenaer, O. (2016). A New Look at Emergence. Or when After is Different. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 6, 297-322. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-016-0140-6 (Original work published 2016)