TY - JOUR
T1 - A new look at emergence
T2 - Or when after is different
AU - Guay, Alexandre
AU - Sartenaer, Olivier
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2016/5/1
Y1 - 2016/5/1
N2 - In this paper, we put forward a new account of emergence called “transformational emergence”. Such an account captures a variety of emergence that can be considered as being diachronic and weakly ontological. The fact that transformational emergence actually constitutes a genuine form of emergence is motivated. Besides, the account is free of traditional problems surrounding more usual, synchronic versions of emergence, and it can find a strong empirical support in a specific physical phenomenon, the fractional quantum Hall effect, which has long been touted as a paradigmatic case of emergence.
AB - In this paper, we put forward a new account of emergence called “transformational emergence”. Such an account captures a variety of emergence that can be considered as being diachronic and weakly ontological. The fact that transformational emergence actually constitutes a genuine form of emergence is motivated. Besides, the account is free of traditional problems surrounding more usual, synchronic versions of emergence, and it can find a strong empirical support in a specific physical phenomenon, the fractional quantum Hall effect, which has long been touted as a paradigmatic case of emergence.
KW - Diachronic emergence
KW - Emergence
KW - Fractional quantum Hall effect
KW - Quantum electrodynamics
KW - Synchronic emergence
KW - Transformational emergence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84963753255&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s13194-016-0140-6
DO - 10.1007/s13194-016-0140-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84963753255
SN - 1879-4912
VL - 6
SP - 297
EP - 322
JO - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
JF - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
IS - 2
ER -