Previously published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-368) and index.
Reductionism: how did we fall into it and can we emerge from it? / Nancey Murphy -- Reduction, emergence, and the mind/body problem: a philosophic overview / Robert Van Gulick -- Who's in charge here? And who's doing all the work? / Robert Van Gulick -- Three levels of emergent phenomena / Terrence W. Deacon -- Science, complexity, and the natures of existence / George F.R. Ellis -- Reduction and emergence in the physical sciences: some lessons from the particle physics and condensed matter debate / Don Howard -- True to life?: biological models of origin and evolution / Martinez J. Hewlett -- Nonlinear science and the cognitive hierarchy / Alwyn Scott -- The emergence of causally efficacious mental function / Warren S. Brown -- Reductionism and emergence: implications for the interaction of theology with the natural sciences / William R. Stoeger, SJ -- Emergence, scientific naturalism, and theology / John F. Haught -- Emergent realities with causal efficacy: some philosophical and theological applications / Arthur Peacocke -- Reduction and emergence in artificial life: a theological appropriation / Niels Henrik Gregersen -- Toward a constructive Christian theology of emergence / Philip Clayton -- Postscript / William R. Stoeger, SJ