Paul Humphreys

Commonwealth Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Virginia

Paul Humphreys (1950-2022) was Commonwealth Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Virginia, where he co-directed the Human and Machine Intelligence Group and the Center for the Study of Data and Knowledge. His books included Emergence: A Philosophical Account (2016) and Philosophical Papers (2019).

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Written by Paul Humphreys

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Physics

Out of nowhere

Does everything in the world boil down to basic units – or can emergence explain how distinctive new things arise?

Paul Humphreys