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Emergence and reduction in context: Philosophy of science and/or analytic metaphysics

Jakob Hohwy and Jesper Kallestrup (eds): Being reduced: New essays on reduction, explanation, and causation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, 312pp, $99.00 HB Mark A. Bedau and Paul Humphreys (eds): Emergence: Contemporary readings in philosophy and science. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008, 464pp, $85.00 HB Antonella Corradini and Timothy O’Connor (eds): Emergence in science and philosophy. London and NewYork: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 2010, 314pp, $128.00 HB

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Silberstein, M. Emergence and reduction in context: Philosophy of science and/or analytic metaphysics. Metascience 21, 627–642 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-012-9671-4

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