Disentangling the Vitalism–Emergentism Knot

Sartenaer, Olivier
(2018) Journal for General Philosophy of Science — Vol. 49, n° 1, p. 73-88 (2018)

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Starting with the observation that there exist contradictory claims in the literature about the relationship between vitalism and emergentism – be it one of inclusion or, on the contrary, exclusion –, this paper aims at disentangling the vitalism–emergentism knot. To this purpose, after having described a particular form of emergentism, namely Lloyd Morgan’s emergent evolutionism, I develop a conceptual analysis on the basis of a distinction between varieties of monism and pluralism. This analysis allows me to identify and characterize several forms of vitalism and emergentism, and a subsequent comparison between these forms constitutes the occasion for a clarification of the relationship between both doctrines.
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Sartenaer, O. (2018). Disentangling the Vitalism–Emergentism Knot. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 49(1), 73-88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-017-9361-4 (Original work published 2018)