Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Author biography
• Introduction
• Brief history of the debate
• Some physics objections to emergence
• Contextual emergence
• Case studies from physics
• Responding to objections
• Broader implications
• Appendix A

About the Author

Robert C Bishop, studied physics at the University of Texas at Austin under John Wheeler, and philosophy under Fred Kronz and Robert Kane. He has held research postdocs in Freiburg and Konstanz, Germany, and taught philosophy of science and philosophy of physics at the London School of Economics, Oxford University and Rice University. He is currently Associate Professor of Physics and Philosophy and the John and Madeleine McIntyre Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Wheaton College.