Article ID: CBB494064968

The Emergence of Texture (2020)

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Crucial to accounts of complexity is the history of the concept of emergence. Pride of place is generally given to G. E. Lewes, who in 1879 offered a theory of “emergents,” of the unpredictable and incommensurate effects which follow from the crossing of causes. This essay recovers an earlier tradition; it focuses on experiments in seventeenth-century materials science, which explain emergent properties through an appeal to microstructural “texture.” A full appreciation of the modern turn to complexity, of our own ecological embeddeness and the interrelationship of things, requires therefore a return to the warp and weft of seventeenth-century artisanal practice.

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Authors & Contributors
Connolly, Patrick J.
Learner, Mary
Taussig, Sylvie
Stark, Laura
Smith, Pamela H.
Schmaltz, Tad M.
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Causality
Senses and sensation; perception
Experiments and experimentation
Natural philosophy
Observation
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Early modern
19th century
20th century, early
Places
England
Europe
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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