You may be interested in the Appendix to my "Reductionist blind spot<http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00004540/>" paper, which reviews Dennet's paper.
-- Russ Abbott _____________________________________________ Professor, Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles Cell phone: 310-621-3805 o Check out my blog at http://russabbott.blogspot.com/ On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Nicholas Thompson < [email protected]> wrote: > 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/<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/> > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> > *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group<[email protected]> > *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. > > -- rec -- > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:36 AM, glen e. p. ropella < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> What's next on the reading list? >> >> -- >> glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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