Philosophical debates about emergence are often marred by equivocation and lack of common ground, and dialogue about emergence between scientists and philosophers can be equally difficult. In this paper I offer a unified explication of emergence and argue that this explication can cut through much of the confusion evident in discussions of emergence. I defend an explication of the concept of emergence as the unavailability of a certain kind of scientific explanation for an observer or observers.
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Taylor, E. (2015). An explication of emergence. Philosophical Studies, 172(3), 653–669. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-014-0324-x
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