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Why Context Matters
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Alicia Juarrero's 'Why Context Matters' offers a concise, accessible introduction to her philosophy of context-sensitive causation drawn from complexity and dynamical systems theory.
The book explains how enabling constraints and organizational structures produce emergent properties and normative notions like viability and health.
Juarrero critiques the analytic/positivist tradition for excluding top-down causation and for treating wholes as mere aggregates, and she presents empirical examples from biology, ecology, and AI to support her claims.
The text also explores implications for action theory, autonomy, and the framing problem in cognitive systems, making connections to contemporary AI debates.
It serves as a reader-friendly entry point to her broader project on how context reshapes scientific and philosophical explanations.
The book explains how enabling constraints and organizational structures produce emergent properties and normative notions like viability and health.
Juarrero critiques the analytic/positivist tradition for excluding top-down causation and for treating wholes as mere aggregates, and she presents empirical examples from biology, ecology, and AI to support her claims.
The text also explores implications for action theory, autonomy, and the framing problem in cognitive systems, making connections to contemporary AI debates.
It serves as a reader-friendly entry point to her broader project on how context reshapes scientific and philosophical explanations.
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Alicia Juarrero
Where Did Analytic Philosophy Go Wrong? (w/ Alicia Juarrero)
