{"id":12635,"date":"2009-05-15T19:19:45","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T19:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/15\/samuel-alexander-on-emergence\/"},"modified":"2009-05-15T19:19:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T19:19:45","slug":"samuel-alexander-on-emergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/15\/samuel-alexander-on-emergence\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Alexander on Emergence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Samuel Alexander, <strong>Space, Time, and Deity<\/strong>, vol. II, Peter Smith 1979,(originally published in 1920), p. 46:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The higher quality emerges from the lower&#0160;level of existence and has its roots therein, but it emerges therefrom, and it does not belong to that lower level, but constitutes its possessor a new order of existent with its special laws of behaviour.&#0160; The existence of emergent qualities thus described is something to be noted, as some would say, under the compulsion of brute empirical fact, or, as I would prefer to say in less harsh terms, to be accepted with the &quot;natural piety&quot; of the investigator.&#0160; It admits no explanation.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">If, however, the emergent entities admit of no explanation, if their emergence is a brute fact, then claims of emergence are open to the &#39;poof&#39; objection.&#0160; It would appear to be rather unbecoming of a hard-assed physicalist to simply announce that such-and-such has emerged when he can offer no explanation of <em>how<\/em> it has emerged.&#0160; If interactionist dualists are supposed to be embarrassed by questions as to how mind and body interact,&#0160;then emergentists are in a similar boat.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">That being said, &quot;natural piety&quot; is a beautiful phrase.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Alexander, Space, Time, and Deity, vol. II, Peter Smith 1979,(originally published in 1920), p. 46: The higher quality emerges from the lower&#0160;level of existence and has its roots therein, but it emerges therefrom, and it does not belong to that lower level, but constitutes its possessor a new order of existent with its special &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/15\/samuel-alexander-on-emergence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Samuel Alexander on Emergence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emergence-and-supervenience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}