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| Preface | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| From Reduction to Emergence | |
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| The rise and fall of reductionism | |
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| The concept of emergence | |
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| The pre-history of the emergence concept | |
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| Weak and strong emergence | |
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| Strong emergence: C. D. Broad | |
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| Emergent evolution: C. L. Morgan | |
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| Strong emergence since 1960 | |
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| Weak emergence: Samuel Alexander | |
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| The challenge of weak emergence | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Defining Emergence | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The problem of definitions | |
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| Five different meanings of emergence | |
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| An example: emergence at the fourth level | |
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| Doubts about emergence | |
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| Diverging approaches to the science and philosophy of emergence | |
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| Downward causation | |
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| Emergence and physicalism | |
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| Conclusion: eight characteristics of emergence | |
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| Notes | |
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| Emergence in the Natural Sciences | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Physics to chemistry | |
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| Artificial systems | |
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| Biochemistry | |
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| The transition to biology | |
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| Emergence in evolution | |
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| Toward an emergentist philosophy of biology | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Emergence and Mind | |
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| The transition from biology | |
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| The three levels of emergence | |
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| Introducing the problem of consciousness | |
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| The neural correlates of consciousness | |
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| Can studies of neural correlates solve the problem of consciousness? | |
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| Why consciousness remains the 'hard problem' | |
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| Weak supervenience and the emergence of mental properties | |
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| Toward an emergentist theory of mind | |
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| Assumptions and a wager | |
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| The science and phenomenology of agent causation | |
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| Person-based explanations and the social sciences | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Emergence and Transcendence | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Mind and metaphysics | |
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| Four metaphysical responses to the emergence of mind | |
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| The presumption of naturalism | |
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| Is there an emergent level after mind? | |
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| The limits to possible scientific enquiry | |
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| What naturalistic explanations leave unexplained | |
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| Going beyond emergence | |
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| Trading mind-body dualism for theological dualism | |
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| Rethinking divine action | |
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| Integrating personhood and divine action | |
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| Closing objections | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |