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Emergence or Supervenient Epifenomenal Ontology?
Havlík, Vladimír
The article deals with a theory of emergence and her role in the contemporary estimation of the theory of complexity. The main focus is layed on the "ontological emergence" and on the development of the theory of emergence from the "British emergentism" to the recent approaches. This article tries to prove inconclusiveness of Kim's arguments against the possibility of ontological emergence.
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Popper's Dream and the Propensity Interpretation of Probability
Havlík, Vladimír
The article deals with Popper's propensity interpretation of probability in the context of his metaphysical epilogue to Schisma of physics. The analysis is devoted to Popper's conjecture about propensity and indeterminism, to description of the new picture of physical reality and to the new metaphysical program of propensity cosmology.
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Atomism in Science
Havlík, Vladimír
The article deals with the role of atomistic conception in science, from its birth to modern physics. Different evaluations of atomism from various point of view and the exhaustion of this idea is taken into consideration.
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