Complexity and emergence : proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Academy of the Philosophy of Science : Bergamo, Italy, 9-13 May 2001 /
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 comp...
| Автор-организации: | Academie internationale de philosophie des sciences. Meeting |
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| Други автори: | Agazzi, Evandro., Montecucco, Luisa. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
River Edge, NJ :
World Scientific,
℗♭2002.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=210600 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Complexity and emergence. |
| Резюме: |
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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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xix, 210 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789812776617 9812776613 9789812381583 9812381589 |