Emergence and Convergence: Qualitative Novelty and the Unity of Knowledge
ISBN: 9781442674356
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: System theory; Evolution; Knowledge Theory of; Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge; Social epistemology;

Bunge proposes a clear definition of the concept of emergence to replace that of supervenience and clarifies the notions of system, real possibility, inverse problem, interdiscipline, and partial truth that occur in all fields.


Bunge Mario :

Mario Bunge is the Frothingham Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University.

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