Abstract

Introduction I. PHILOSOPHY 1. Reduction - how did we fall into it and can we emerge from it? 2. Reduction, emergence, and the mind/body problem 3. Who's in charge here? And who's doing all the work? 4. Three levels of emergent phenomena II. SCIENCE 5. Science, complexity, and the nature of existence 6. Emergence in the physical sciences: lessons from the particle physics and condensed matter debate 7. True to life? Biological models of origin and evolution 8. Nonlinear science and the cognitive hierarchy 9. The emergence of causally efficacious mental function III. THEOLOGY 10. Reductionism and emergence: implications for the theology and science dialogue 11. Emergence, scientific naturalism, and theology 12. Emergent realities with causal efficacy - philosophical and theological applications 13. Reduction and emergence in artificial life: a theological appropriation 14. Toward a constructive Christian theology of emergence Postscript

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