Alicia Juarrero, Carl A. Rubino.
Emergence, Complexity, and Self-Organization: precursors and prototypes.
Emergent. 2010
Emergence, Complexity, and Self-Organization have become vital focuses of interest
not only in the fields of science and philosophy
but also in the wider worlds of business and politics.
This book presents a series of essays by thinkers
who anticipated the significance of those issues
and laid the foundations for their current importance.
Readers of this book will encounter the important and varied figures of
Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Charles Saunders Peirce,
Henry Poincaré, Henri Bergson, Alfred North Whitehead, and
the British “Emergentists” Samuel Alexander, C. Lloyd Morgan, and C. D. Broad.
They will also find essays by the South African thinker and statesman Jan Smuts,
the American philosopher Arthur Lovejoy, the eminent physicist Erwin Schrödinger,
two more recent thinkers on emergence, P. E. Meehl and Wilfred Sellars,
and Ludwig von Bertalanffy, one of the founders of General Systems Theory.
In their detailed and comprehensive introduction to the collection, editors Alicia Juarrero and Carl A. Rubino set the essays in contexts stretching from Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, and Hegel to some of the religious, scientific, and philosophical challenges we face today.