COMPLEXITY AND EMERGENCE, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE by Evandro Agazzi (Editor), Luisa Montecu (Editor) ( 9789812381583 )

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COMPLEXITY AND EMERGENCE, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

By:

Evandro Agazzi (Editor), Luisa Montecu (Editor)

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WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO PTE LTD

Pub. date:

4 December, 2002

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232

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The question of how complex systems can show properties that are different from those of their constituent parts has nurtured philosophical debates about emergence and reductionism. This text discusses these topics by putting the philosophy of science and specialized topics into a dialogue.

Synopsis:

Complexity has become a central topic in certain sectors of theoretical physics and chemistry (for example, in connection with nonlinearity and deterministic chaos). Also, mathematical measurements of complexity and formal characterizations of this notion have been proposed. The question of how complex systems can show properties that are different from those of their constituent parts has nurtured philosophical debates about emergence and reductionism, which are particularly important in the study of the relationship between physics, chemistry, biology and psychology. This book offers a good presentation of those topics through a truly interdisciplinary approach in which the philosophy of science and the specialized topics of certain sciences are put in a dialogue.

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Singapore

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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd

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