Emergence

"The book presents in a very detailed narrative the current status quaestionis of theories of powers metaphysics as well as emergence and downward causation, and is extremely valuable and informative, proposing a move forward in the contemporary metaphysical discussion. The scholarship is superb, and the arguments and ideas presented in it could lead to new developments in the future by many a scholar interested in an Aristotelian interpretation of powers ontology." -Ignacio Silva, Philosophy Institute, Austral University, Argentina

"Mariusz Tabaczek's Emergence provides us with Aristotle's metaphysics masterfully updated to address some of the most vexing dilemmas of twenty-first-century philosophy of science. Whether or not it resolves current debates about the nature of causality and the concept of emergence, it nevertheless reframes them with a clarity and precision that only the father of metaphysics could provide." -Terrence W. Deacon, University of California, Berkeley

"The time is exactly right for Mariusz Tabaczek's new book on emergence. In relating historical debates to contemporary metaphysics, Tabaczek produces a philosophical tour de force encompassing all the relevant contributions to the debate and, just as importantly, establishing a plausible set of conclusions. This will surely be a major reference for future work on the topic." -Stephen Mumford, Durham University

"Emergence teaches that chemical, biological, psychological, and social entities have effects on the world, a view that rejects the reductionist physicalist claim that, in principle at least, one can completely explain events in the world using the entities recognized by physics alone.'' -Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture

"Tabaczek has managed to digest an impressively encyclopaedic quantity of scholarship on metaphysics and science within a single volume which will be useful for both students and researchers, and his challenge to reclaim a more classical conception of hylomorphism is timely and apt to invigorate lively discussion." -The Thomist