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Human emergence and our place in the natural world

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Human emergence and our place in the natural worldby David Sprintzen.
Author:	Sprintzen, David.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024.
Description:	xi, 120 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Metaphysics.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73438-0
ISBN:	9783031734380$q(electronic bk.)

Human emergence and our place in the natural world
Sprintzen, David.

Human emergence and our place in the natural world[electronic resource] /by David Sprintzen. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024. - xi, 120 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Chapter 1: What's Wrong With This Picture? -- Chapter 2: Scientific Perspectives -- Chapter 3: Reconstructing Scientific Logic -- Chapter 4: Ontological Emergence -- Chapter 5: Emergence of the Human.

This book challenges the prevailing, though often unacknowledged, view among most practicing scientists and philosophers that human free will is incompatible with the natural causality that is the basic presupposition of modern science. That position is essentially based on the reductionist view of modern physics that all complex phenomena are thought to be ultimately causally explainable solely as a function of the action of their elemental constituents. The book argues that this mainstream opinion is the appropriate logical result of an inadequate conception of the way nature works. To show this the book first details the fundamental philosophical incoherence in the prevailing scientific world view. It then justifies the critique by outlining and re-describing some key findings of modern science, and presents three related alternative aspects by which we can understand the occurrence of natural emergence. In so doing it is suggested that emergence is a pervasive phenomenon in the natural world, and that human free will is an entirely understandable development of these natural processes, when properly understood, in which humanity is appropriately seen as a natural emergent within the evolutionary processes operating in accord with natural selection. Human Emergence and Our Place in the Natural World is essential reading for all philosophers of metaphysics and of science. David Sprintzen is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Long Island University.

ISBN: 9783031734380$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-73438-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

228630
Metaphysics.

LC Class. No.: BD111

Dewey Class. No.: 110

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