The disorder of things Book

Full of good smaller points, but I do not believe in the metaphysical foundations Dupré proposes. Dupré basically thinks that the world described at different levels has different rules in such a strong sense that everything couldn't be described in ultimate terms of physics even in principle. I think that a view of "weak" emergence where everything is describable by the same physics in principle but ONLY in principle accounts for the same observations, as well as being a more promising and satisfying hypothesis. Note that this would lead to many or most of the same practical conclusions about how science should be understood and applied as Dupré's view. For how such a view could work, see eg. The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World.