Критика на Попъровия емерджентизъм
Critique of Popper’s Emergentism

Summary/Abstract: The article comprises three main points. First it concisely presents some of the basic characteristics of the notion of emergence in the field of philosophy of mind. The second part describes Popper’s concept of emergence, as presented in his book The Self and Its Brain (1997). The main object of analysis is the notion of evolution and downward causation. The third part develops three separate lines of critique related to: the ambiguity of Popper’s concepts; the lack of valid arguments for the metaphysical postulation of the three worlds; and the special status that Popper grants to human consciousness in our world.

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