Yeah. Daniel Dennett. What a let down. N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University ([email protected])
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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From: Roger Critchlow
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: 10/5/2009 10:30:35 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] emergence seminar: what's next?
Bit of a let down. Nick assigned Chapter 9, Daniel C Dennett, Real Patterns,
and Chapter 2, Carl Hempel and Paul Oppenheim, On the Idea of Emergence.
Dennett's article was 25 pages originally, trimmed to 19 pages for the
emergence collection, and I think they could have trimmed another 18.5 pages
without losing much content. The question, buried in much tangential content,
is whether a perceived pattern can be real even if one is mistaken about the
mechanism of the pattern's origin.
Hempel and Oppenheim are the token logical positivists in the collection,
though Wikipedia notes that Hempel preferred to call himself a "logical
empiricist". Their article is an awesome slapdown of "of the classical
absolutistic doctrine of emergence". That appears to refer to some British
Emergentist ideas that McLaughlin didn't mention.
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On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:36 AM, glen e. p. ropella
<[email protected]> wrote:
What's next on the reading list?
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