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Emergence and the realist account of cause
journal contribution
posted on 2017-07-10, 10:18 authored by Dave Elder-VassThe concept of emergence is routinely invoked in critical realist theory, but rarely examined. Yet emergence is fundamental to the realist account of cause. This paper aims to improve critical realism's understanding of emergence by discussing, first, what emergence is and how it works; second, the need for a compositional account of emergence; and third, the implications of emergence for causation. It goes on to argue that the theory of emergence leads to the recognition of certain hitherto neglected similarities between real causal powers and actual causation.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
Journal of Critical RealismVolume
4Issue
(2)Pages
315 - 38Citation
ELDER-VASS, D., 2005. Emergence and the realist account of cause. Journal of Critical Realism, 4 (2), pp.315-338.Publisher
Taylor and FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2005Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Critical Realism on 21/04/2015, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jocr.v4i2.315.ISSN
1476-7430eISSN
1572-5138Publisher version
Language
- en