Emergent Timeline
This page is designed to explore the timeline of ideas of emergence: how they developed, and how they affected others. After a substantial flow of ideas emerges, we'll turn this into a diagram to help visualize it.
Please help create this resource! People are listed in chronological birth order.
The Atomists
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The story of emergence would not be complete without exploring the influence of the reductionism of the atomists.
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomists
Aristotle, 384 BC - 322 BC
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle
Democritus, 460 BC - 370 BC
Isaac Newton, 1643-1727
More: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newton.html,
George Herbert Mead 1863-1931
Adam Smith, 1723-1790
In The Wealth of Nations (1776), Smith makes the claim that, within the system of capitalism, an individual acting for his own good tends also to promote the good of his community. He attributed this principle to a social mechanism that he called the "Invisible Hand."
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith
Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804
More: http://www.iep.utm.edu/k/kantmeta.htm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770-1831
More: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/
George Henry Lewes, 1817–1878
Emergence as a "philosophical sense" in his 1875 Problems of Life and Mind.
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Henry_Lewes
William James, 1842-1910
More: http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/james.html,
Karl Popper, 1902–1994
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper
Giles Deleuze, 1925-1995
Rhizome Versus Trees. 1980. Rpt. The Deleuze Reader. Ed. Constantin Boundas. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993: 27-36.
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze
Michel Serres, 1930-
1982."The Origin of Language: Biology, Information Theory and Thermodynamics." Chapter 7. Hermes. Ed. J. Harari and D. Bell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Serres
Christopher Alexander, 1936-
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A City Is Not a Tree 1965. (Architectual Forum.Rpt. The City Reader. Ed. Richard LeGates and Frederick Stout. New York: Routledge, 1996: 119-131.
Alexander is the inventor the wiki. Will Wright has written that Alexander's work was influential in the origin of The Sims computer game, and in his most recent work (Spores?).
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander
