Science, philosophy of science, and metaphysics have long been concerned with the question of how order, stability, and novelty are possible and how they happen. How can order come out of disorder? This book introduces a new account, contextual emergence, seeking to answer these questions.
I was both enlightened and informed by the way in which the authors gave a philosophical account of a resolution of the conundrum that arises when one tries to fit molecular structure theory into Schrödinger quantum mechanics. The method that they used seems widely applicable, so the book is surely worth reading by any, who like me, are stuck with a theoretical conundrum.
