03176nam a22004455i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001300172072001600185072002300201072001600224100008600240245010100326250001800427264007900445300003300524336002600557337002600583338003600609347002400645505020700669520148000876650002402356650003202380650002402412650003402436710003402470773002602504776003602530776003602566776003602602856004602638912001402684912001502698999001702713978-3-031-73438-0DE-He21320251030114549.0cr nn 008mamaa241128s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830317343809978-3-031-73438-07 a10.1007/978-3-031-73438-02doi 4aBD95-131 7aHPJ2bicssc 7aPHI0130002bisacsh 7aQDTJ2thema1 aSprintzen, David.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut98818310aHuman Emergence and Our Place in the Natural Worldh[electronic resource] /cby David Sprintzen.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXI, 120 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aChapter 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.  aThis 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. 0aMetaphysics.970839 0aSciencexPhilosophy.96330714aMetaphysics.97083924aPhilosophy of Science.9685602 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303173437308iPrinted edition:z978303173439708iPrinted edition:z978303173440340uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73438-0  aZDB-2-REP  aZDB-2-SXPR  c65274d65274