MEDIUM EMERGENCE – Part One – The Personalist Theory of Emergence

Paksi, Dániel (2017) MEDIUM EMERGENCE – Part One – The Personalist Theory of Emergence. Appraisal, 11 (2). pp. 13-22.

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Abstract

Today the concept of emergence is quite popular, but its original meaning—a proper medium ontological conviction between dualism and materialist monism—has faded. An epistemological, weak understanding of emergence has arisen and the possibility of ontological emergence is called into question. With a detailed examination of the ontological consequences of the notion of reduction, I will argue, that, contrary to materialist conviction and interpretation, reduction and emergence are not each other’s rivals but on the contrary, and that epistemological or weak emergence is not a kind of “metaphysically innocent” materialism, but one of the two Janus faces of one medium emergence—the other being ontological or strong emergence. These faces are inseparable, and together they form the one proper medium ontological conviction between dualism (or vitalism, creationism, etc.) and materialist monism.

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