英国突现主义的理论价值与局限——从复杂性科学的发展看

The Theoretical Value and Limitation of British Emergentism——from the perspective of the development of Complexity Science

19世纪末20世纪初,以英国突现主义学派为代表,在哲学层面上构建了一个层次突现进化论的体系。这个重要的哲学学派力图在反活力论与反还原论之间寻求一条中间道路。他们提出的许多观点已触及了突现的主要问题,对复杂性科学的研究具有重要的启示。

At the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the school of British emergentism constructed a system of level-emergence evolution in the layer of philosophy. This school tried to find a middle way between the anti-vitalism and anti-reductionism. Many points of this school have touched the main problems about emergence, thus throwing new light on the studies of complexity science.