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C. Lloyd Morgan. Emergent Evolution. London: Williams and Norgate (1923).

Emergent Evolution

Table of Contents

C. Lloyd Morgan

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Preface

Lecture I. Emergence

• I. Emergents and Resultants
• II. A Pyramidal Scheme
• III. Involution and Dependence
• IV. Towards Space-Time
• V. Deity

Lecture II. Mental and Non-Mental

• VI. Minding and that which is Minded
• VII. Presentation, Perception and Contemplation
• VIII. Projicient Reference
• IX. Phenomenalism
• X. Acknowledgment

Lecture III. Relatedness

• XI. Relation and Relatedness
• XII. Terms in Relation
• XIII. External and Internal Relations
• XIV. Logical Sense and Natural Direction
• XV. Three-entity Situations

Lecture IV. Reference

• XVI. Reference a matter of Conscious Regard
• XVII. Perceptual Reference
• XVIII. Is there initial Reference in the Primitive Mind?
• XIX. That which is involved in the Genesis of Reference
• XX. Reference supplemented by Acknowledgment.

Lecture V. Memory

• XXI. A Tentative Scheme
• XXII. Recognition and Againness.
• XXIII. Retention and Revival
• XXIV. Restatement under Emergent Evolution
• XXV. Secondary and Tertiary Retention

Lecture VI. Images

• XXVI. The mark of the Past and of the Future
• XXVII. Disparate Order of being
• XXVIII. Images at the level of Pure Perception
• XXIX. Concrete Perception
• XXX. Memory Images and Recollection

Lecture VII. Towards Reality

• XXXI. From "as if" to "is.
• XXXII. A Mark of Reality
• XXXIII. Qualities and Properties
• XXXIV. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Reality.
• XXXV. Levels of Reality.

Lecture VIII. Vision and Contact

• XXXVI. Projicience in Vision
• XXXVII. Contact
• XXXVIII. The Property of Beauty
• XXXIX. The Property of Colour
• XL. "The Bifurcation of Nature."

Lecture IX. Relativity

• XLI. Spatial Frames
• XLII. A Space-time Frame
• XLIII. Classical Treatment
• XLIV. Special and General Relativity
• XLV. Relativey subject to Projicience

Lecture X. Causation and Causality

• XLVI. A "Common-sense" View and that of "Exact Science"
• XLVII. Cause as precedent to Effect
• XLVIII. Ground and Conditions of Change.
• XLIX. Causality distinguished from Causation
• L. The Position reviewed

Appendix: Evolutionary Naturalism

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