| Preface |
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| Contents |
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| Part 1 - Introduction |
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Levels, Emergence, and Three Versions of Downward Causation |
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13 | (22) |
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| Part 2 - Physics |
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35 | (44) |
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Wholeness and Part, Cosmos and Man - in 16th and 17th Century Natural Philosophy and in Modern Holism |
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37 | (14) |
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Macro and Micro-Levels in Physics |
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51 | (12) |
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Peder Voetmann Christiansen |
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Causation, Control, and The Evolution of Complexity |
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63 | (16) |
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| Part 3 - Biology and Psychology |
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Psychosomatics and the Pineal Gland |
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81 | (18) |
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Downward Causation at the Core of Living Organization |
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99 | (19) |
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Higher-level Descriptions: Why Should we Preserve them? |
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118 | (25) |
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The Change is Afoot: Emergentist Thinking in Language Acquisition |
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143 | (36) |
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| Part 4 - Social and Communicative Systems |
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179 | (124) |
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Material Sign Processes and Emergent Ecosocial Organization |
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181 | (33) |
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Genres as Self-Organising Systems |
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214 | (47) |
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Anticipated Downward Causation and the Arch Structure of Texts |
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261 | (17) |
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Rule-based and Rule-generating Systems |
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278 | (25) |
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| Part 5 - Philosophy |
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303 | (46) |
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Making Sense of Downward Causation |
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305 | (17) |
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322 | (27) |
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| Contributors |
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349 | (2) |
| Author Index |
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