Emergence, Complexity, and Self-Organization - Precursors and Prototypes (Hardcover)

Emergence, Complexity, and Self-Organization have become vital focuses of interest not only in the fields of science and philosophy but also in the wider worlds of business and politics. This book presents a series of essays by thinkers who anticipated the significance of those issues and laid the foundations for their current importance. Readers of this book will encounter the important and varied figures of Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Charles Saunders Peirce, Henry Poincare, Henri Bergson, Alfred North Whitehead, and the British "Emergentists" Samuel Alexander, C. Lloyd Morgan, and C. D. Broad. They will also find essays by the South African thinker and statesman Jan Smuts, the American philosopher Arthur Lovejoy, the eminent physicist Erwin Schrodinger, two more recent thinkers on emergence, P. E. Meehl and Wilfred Sellars, and Ludwig von Bertalanffy, one of the founders of General Systems Theory. In their detailed and comprehensive introduction to the collection, editors Alicia Juarrero and Carl A. Rubino set the essays in contexts stretching from Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, and Hegel to some of the religious, scientific, and philosophical challenges we face today.

General

Imprint:	Isce Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2008
First published:	May 2008
Editors:	Alicia Juarrero • Carl A. Rubino
Dimensions:	156 x 234 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-9817032-1-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	0-9817032-1-6
Barcode:	9780981703213

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