New Books in History

New Books in History


Carl Gillett, “Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

February 15, 2017

Are complex phenomena ânothing but the sum of their partsâ, or are they âmore than the sum of their partsâ? Physicists, chemists, and biologists as well as philosophers have long argued on both sides of this debate between the ideaâ¦