Richard E. Lee is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge and the coeditor (with Immanuel Wallerstein) of Overcoming the Two Cultures: Science versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System.

"Modern knowledge, according to the contributors to this multivolume exercise (based on three symposia), is based on three questionable premises and principles: determinism, reductionism, and dualism. Each volume interrogates these three principles and seeks to find alternative and more satisfying bases for knowledge. The volumes include formal papers as well as commentaries and edited transcripts of the discussions at each symposium. The range is truly extraordinary, with papers covering everything from economics to opera, cognitive neuroscience, literary studies, mathematical modeling, and systems theory … [the volumes] open a host of questions for scholars to ponder and suggest many enlightening lines of inquiry … Highly recommended." — CHOICE

• ParticipantsIllustrationsForewordImmanuel WallersteinIntroductionRichard E. LeeS E S S I O N I Reductionism in Social ScienceAndrew SayerDiscussionS E S S I O N I I Emergence and Complex SystemsEvan ThompsonDiscussionS E S S I O N I I I Reduction and Emergence in Complex SystemsJean PetitotDiscussionS E S S I O N I V Organizers’ Opening RemarksImmanuel Wallerstein Jean-Pierre DupuyAviv BergmanDiscussionIndex

Richard E. Lee is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge and the coeditor (with Immanuel Wallerstein) of Overcoming the Two Cultures: Science versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System.

"Modern knowledge, according to the contributors to this multivolume exercise (based on three symposia), is based on three questionable premises and principles: determinism, reductionism, and dualism. Each volume interrogates these three principles and seeks to find alternative and more satisfying bases for knowledge. The volumes include formal papers as well as commentaries and edited transcripts of the discussions at each symposium. The range is truly extraordinary, with papers covering everything from economics to opera, cognitive neuroscience, literary studies, mathematical modeling, and systems theory … [the volumes] open a host of questions for scholars to ponder and suggest many enlightening lines of inquiry … Highly recommended." — CHOICE

• ParticipantsIllustrationsForewordImmanuel WallersteinIntroductionRichard E. LeeS E S S I O N I Reductionism in Social ScienceAndrew SayerDiscussionS E S S I O N I I Emergence and Complex SystemsEvan ThompsonDiscussionS E S S I O N I I I Reduction and Emergence in Complex SystemsJean PetitotDiscussionS E S S I O N I V Organizers’ Opening RemarksImmanuel Wallerstein Jean-Pierre DupuyAviv BergmanDiscussionIndex

Richard E. Lee is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge and the coeditor (with Immanuel Wallerstein) of Overcoming the Two Cultures: Science versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System.

"Modern knowledge, according to the contributors to this multivolume exercise (based on three symposia), is based on three questionable premises and principles: determinism, reductionism, and dualism. Each volume interrogates these three principles and seeks to find alternative and more satisfying bases for knowledge. The volumes include formal papers as well as commentaries and edited transcripts of the discussions at each symposium. The range is truly extraordinary, with papers covering everything from economics to opera, cognitive neuroscience, literary studies, mathematical modeling, and systems theory … [the volumes] open a host of questions for scholars to ponder and suggest many enlightening lines of inquiry … Highly recommended." — CHOICE

• ParticipantsIllustrationsForewordImmanuel WallersteinIntroductionRichard E. LeeS E S S I O N I Reductionism in Social ScienceAndrew SayerDiscussionS E S S I O N I I Emergence and Complex SystemsEvan ThompsonDiscussionS E S S I O N I I I Reduction and Emergence in Complex SystemsJean PetitotDiscussionS E S S I O N I V Organizers’ Opening RemarksImmanuel Wallerstein Jean-Pierre DupuyAviv BergmanDiscussionIndex