The Routledge Handbook of Emergence is an outstanding reference source and exploration of the concept of emergence, and is the first collection of its kind.

Introduction Robin Findlay Hendry, Sophie Gibb, and Tom Lancaster Part 1: Foundations of Emergence 1. British Emergentism Brian P. McLaughlin 2. Dependence Paul Noordhof 3. Fundamentality Kerry McKenzie 4. Reduction John Bickle 5. Emergence, function and realization Umut Baysan 6. Strong emergence and Alexander's dictum Alex Carruth 7. Emergence, downward causation and its alternatives: critically surveying a foundational issue Carl Gillett 8. The causal closure principle Sophie Gibb 9. Computational emergence: weak and strong Mark Pexton 10. Being Emergence vs. Pattern Emergence: Complexity, Control and Goal-Directedness in Biological Systems Jason Winning and William Bechtel 11. Complexity and feedback Robert Bishop and Michael Silberstein 12. Between Scientism and Abstractionism in the Metaphysics of Emergence Jessica Wilson Part 2: Emergence and Mind 13. Emergent Dualism in the Philosophy of Mind Hong Yu Wong 14. Emergent mental causation David Robb 15. Emergence and Non-Reductive Physicalism Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald 16. Intentionality and Emergence Lynne Rudder Baker 17. Emergence and consciousness Robert Van Gulick 18. Emergence and panpsychism John Heil Part 3: Emergence and Physics 19. Phase transitions, broken symmetry and the renormalization group Stephen J. Blundell 20. Soft Matter - An Emergent Interdisciplinary Science of Emergent Entities Tom McLeish 21. Emergence in Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics Stewart Clark and Iorwerth Thomas 22. The emergence of excitations in quantum fields: quasiparticles and topological objects Tom Lancaster 23. Emergence: a personal perspective on a new paradigm for scientific research David Pines 24. Emergence and Reductionism: an awkward Baconian alliance Piers Coleman 25. The emergence of space and time Christian Wüthrich Part 4: Emergence and the Special Sciences 26. Digital Emergence Susan Stepney 27. Emergence in Chemistry: Substance and Structure Robin Findlay Hendry 28. Emergence in Biology: From Organicism to Systems Biology Emily Herring and Gregory Radick 29. Emergence in the cell Michel Morange 30. Evolution, Information and Emergence George Ellis 31. A-mergence of biological systems Raymond Noble and Denis Noble 32. Emergence in the Social Sciences Julie Zahle and Tuukka Kaidesoja.