"In a span of roughly one hundred years, British Emergentism enjoyed a great rise and suffered a great fall. It is one of my central contentions that its rise was not due to “philosophical mistakes,” nor its fall to the uncovering of such mistakes. So far as I can tell, British Emergentism does not rest on any “philosophical mistakes.” It is one of my main contentions that advances in science, not philosophical criticism, led to the fall of British Emergentism. ...

I wrote this chapter because I thought British Emergentism, once a fairly widely held doctrine, deserved another look; not because it was right, but because its mistakes were fewer and far more interesting than had been generally recognized. It went wrong for deep empirical reasons. It took many of the greatest scientific achievements of the twentieth century to refute it"

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