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On Kinds of Indiscernibility in Logic and Metaphysics
Adam Caulton, Jeremy Butterfield
Using the Hilbert-Bernays account as a spring-board, we first define four ways in which two objects can be discerned from one another, using the non-logical vocabulary of the langu…
Emergence, Reduction and Supervenience: a Varied Landscape
Jeremy Butterfield
This is one of two papers about emergence, reduction and supervenience. It expounds these notions and analyses the general relations between them. The companion paper analyses the…
Less is Different: Emergence and Reduction Reconciled
Jeremy Butterfield
This is a companion to another paper. Together they rebut two widespread philosophical doctrines about emergence. The first, and main, doctrine is that emergence is incompatible wi…
Emergence and Reduction Combined in Phase Transitions
Jeremy Butterfield, Nazim Bouatta
In another paper (Butterfield 2011), one of us argued that emergence and reduction are compatible, and presented four examples illustrating both. The main purpose of this paper is…