180061 SE Ontological and Epistemological Emergence (2021W)
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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DIGITAL
An/Abmeldung
Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").
- Anmeldung von Fr 10.09.2021 09:00 bis Do 16.09.2021 10:00
- Anmeldung von Fr 24.09.2021 09:00 bis Do 30.09.2021 10:00
- Abmeldung bis Sa 23.10.2021 23:59
Details
max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
Digital: online course
Dienstag
12.10.
11:30 - 13:00
Digital
Dienstag
19.10.
11:30 - 13:00
Digital
Dienstag
09.11.
11:30 - 13:00
Digital
Dienstag
16.11.
11:30 - 13:00
Digital
Dienstag
23.11.
11:30 - 13:00
Digital
Dienstag
30.11.
11:30 - 13:00
Digital
Dienstag
07.12.
11:30 - 13:00
Digital
Dienstag
14.12.
11:30 - 13:00
Digital
Dienstag
11.01.
11:30 - 13:00
Digital
Dienstag
18.01.
11:30 - 13:00
Digital
Dienstag
25.01.
11:30 - 13:00
Digital
Information
Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
This is an advanced introduction to the notion of emergence, and its place and role in contemporary philosophy of science. The course provides an overview of the current theories of emergence, linking them to several important philosophical notions such as physicalism, holism, and multiple realizability. The relations between scientific and philosophical conceptions of emergence are discussed, using some scientific examples as illustrations. The course focuses especially on emergence in biological sciences. Having taken this course, the student has a good overview of the various notions of emergence, understands different scientific examples of emergence, and is able to follow and participate in the philosophical discussion of emergence.
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
- careful reading and active discussion of the literature
- questions in the Moodle platform
- active discussion in the Moodle platform
- (co-)chairing group discussion in the class
- final essay
- questions in the Moodle platform
- active discussion in the Moodle platform
- (co-)chairing group discussion in the class
- final essay
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria:- active participation (20%),
- questions and online discussion of readings (20%),
- (co-)chairing a class (10%),
- final essay (50%).
All aforementioned components of the course have to be fulfilled for the successful completion of the grade.One unexcused absence is permitted.Grading table
1 – (excellent) 90 – 100 points
2 – (good) 81 – 89 points
3 – (satisfactory) 71 – 80 points
4 – (sufficient) 61 – 70 points
5 – (insufficient) 0 – 60 points
- questions and online discussion of readings (20%),
- (co-)chairing a class (10%),
- final essay (50%).
All aforementioned components of the course have to be fulfilled for the successful completion of the grade.One unexcused absence is permitted.Grading table
1 – (excellent) 90 – 100 points
2 – (good) 81 – 89 points
3 – (satisfactory) 71 – 80 points
4 – (sufficient) 61 – 70 points
5 – (insufficient) 0 – 60 points
Prüfungsstoff
The course has a final essay in English, to be submitted after the course. The instructions are given in the syllabus (Moodle), and in the class.
Literatur
Readings (will be available in Moodle )Humphreys, Paul. 2019. “Emergence.” In The Oxford Handbook in Philosophy of Science, edited by Humphreys, Paul. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199368815.013.38Kim, Jaegwon. 2006. “Emergence: Core Ideas and Issues.” Synthese 151: 547–559.Chalmers, David. 2006. “Strong and Weak Emergence.” In The Re-Emergence of Emergence, edited by Philip Clayton and Paul Davies 244-256. Oxford: Oxford University Press.El-Hani, Charbel, and Sami Pihlström. 2002. “Emergence Theories and Pragmatic Realism”. Essays in Philosophy 3 (2).Wimsatt, William. 2007. “Emergence as Non-aggregativity and the Biases of Reductionisms.” In Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality, 274-312. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Dupré, John. 2021. The Metaphysics of Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Chapters 1-4)Kauffman, Stuart, and Philip Clayton. 2006. “On Emergence, Agency, and Organization.” Biology and Philosophy 21 (4): 501–21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-005-9003-9.Bich, Leonardo and Luisa Damiano. 2008. “Order in the Nothing: Autopoiesis and the Organizational Characterization of the Living.” In Physics of Emergence and Organization, edited by Ignazio Licata and Ammar Sakaji, 339- 370. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing.Montévil, Maël 2018. “Possibility Spaces and the Notion of Novelty: From Music to Biology.” Synthese, 96:4 555–4581.
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Letzte Änderung: Fr 12.05.2023 00:18