Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Sources -- Introduction -- I Philosophical Perspectives on Emergence -- Introduction to Philosophical Perspectives on Emergence -- 1 The Rise and Fall of British Emergentism -- 2 On the Idea of Emergence -- 3 Reductionism and the Irreducibility of Consciousness -- 4 Emergence and Supervenience -- 5 Aggregativity: Reductive Heuristics for Finding Emergence -- 6 How Properties Emerge -- 7 Making Sense of Emergence -- 8 Downward Causation and Autonomy in Weak Emergence -- 9 Real Patterns -- II Scientific Perspectives on Emergence -- Introduction to Scientific Perspectives on Emergence -- 10 More is Different: Broken Symmetry and the Nature of the Hierarchical Structure of Science -- 11 Emergence -- 12 Sorting and Mixing: Race and Sex -- 13 Alternative Views of Complexity -- 14 The Theory of Everything -- 15 Is Anything Ever New? Considering Emergence -- 16 Design, Observation, Surprise! A Test of Emergence -- 17 Ansatz for Dynamical Hierarchies -- III Background and Polemics -- Introduction to Background and Polemics -- 18 Newtonianism, Reductionism and the Art of Congressional Testimony -- 19 Issues in the Logic of Reductive Explanations -- 20 Chaos -- 21 Undecidability and Intractability in Theoretical Physics -- 22 Special Sciences (Or: The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis) -- 23 Supervenience -- 24 The Nonreductivist's Troubles with Mental Causation -- Annotated Bibliography -- About the Authors -- Index.