ABSTRACT
Anyone who finds traditional dualisms implausible, yet is unsatisfied with eliminativist or strongly reductive views of the mind, is likely to find congenial the idea that somehow or other the mind emerges from the functioning of the brain and nervous system. This idea was an integral part of the “emergent evolution” espoused early in this century by Samuel Alexander, C. Lloyd Morgan, and C.D. Broad.1 The notion of emergence, however, has been employed with a variety of different meanings, so it is necessary at this point to say something about those differing uses and to clarify the way emergence is to be understood in the present discussion. We will then proceed to consider two recent emergentist views of the mind, offer a constructive proposal, and conclude by raising some additional questions.
