...This chapter explores the relationship between the concept of emergence, the goal of theoretical completeness, and the Principle of Sufficient Reason. Samuel Alexander and C. D. Broad argued for limits to the power of scientific explanation. Chemical explanation played a central role...

... Alexander Samuel duration Eliot T S eternity Machiavelli Niccolò Samuel Alexander St Thomas Aquinas clear and distinct ideas problem of evil Sigmund Freud Thomas Hobbes ideas power self sub specie aeternitatis Something is missing from Spinoza's philosophy of mind: something decisive, whose...

...), Samuel Alexander’s Space, Time, and Deity (1920), Lloyd Morgan’s Emergent Evolution (1923), and C. D. Broad’s The Mind and Its Place in Nature (1925). The chapter also discusses British Emergentism’s doctrine of “emergent laws,” and the rise and fall...

... Intra ordinal laws Trans ordinal laws Emergent laws Quantum mechanics Vitalism Kripke Saul Consciousness Davidson Donald Hare R M emergentist tradition supervenience John Stuart Mill Alexander Bain George Henry Lewes Samuel Alexander Lloyd Morgan C. D. Broad James van Cleve The notion...

... of the organism-environment relationship from a subset of British idealist philosophers who were trying to reconcile evolutionary ideas with a critique of Herbert Spencer’s environmentalist theories of human thought and action. Idealists such as Edward Caird and Samuel Alexander insisted that adaptation...

... of the various ways in which Idealism responded to the ‘new realism’ of such figures as Russell, Moore, and Samuel Alexander which have often but erroneously been thought of as ‘refuting’ it. Adamson Robert Essays in Philosophical Criticism Haldane Richard Burdon Hume David idealism Pringle‐Pattison A S...

... Railway Bridge Livingstone Victoria Falls region Beckwith Mary London United Kingdom African safari Reverend Thomas Gulick hunting sudden death Samuel Alexander It came as no surprise to Samuel’s family and friends when he announced plans to embark on an African safari in the summer of 1904...

...The early twentieth-century ‘British emergentist’ Samuel Alexander put forward the first emergentist theology, a metaphysic on which the universe is conceived as a hierarchy of emergence, crowned by the emergence of God. Recent emergentist theologies can be found in the work of Arthur Peacocke...

...This chapter discusses Samuel Alexander, who was the father of Annie Montague Alexander. It begins by stating the similarities that Annie shared with him, as well as the impact his death had on her. The next section narrates the story of Samuel's life: his early childhood in Maui, his engagement...