Emergence, group judgment and the discursive dilemma

Joel Walmsley ()

Mind & Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and Social Sciences, 2015, vol. 14, issue 2, 185-201

Abstract: In this paper, I argue that the account of emergence advanced by Broad (The mind and its place in nature, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, ( 1925 ) is both defensible (in the sense that it provides a coherent and non-mysterious view that does what we want a theory of emergence to do) and applicable to some examples of group-level (or social) phenomena. Specifically, Broad’s account enables the formulation of a non-reductive physicalism (in philosophy of mind) or of a non-reductive individualism (in philosophy of social science), and correctly describes the case of group-judgment under the conditions of the discursive dilemma. Furthermore, this analysis shows that emergent phenomena need not be characterised using the resources of complexity theory. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Keywords: Emergence; Non-reductive Individualism; Group cognition; Discursive dilemma; C.D. Broad (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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