Complexity and Emergence

ISBN 10: 9812381589 / ISBN 13: 9789812381583

Editore: World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2002

pp. 232. Codice articolo 56735910

Riassunto:

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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Titolo: Complexity and Emergence
Casa editrice: World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Data di pubblicazione: 2002
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: New