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The Demons of Science - What They Can and Cannot Tell Us About Our World (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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The Demons of Science - What They Can and Cannot Tell Us About Our World (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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This book is the first all-encompassing exploration of the role of
demons in philosophical and scientific thought experiments. In Part
I, the author explains the importance of thought experiments in
science and philosophy. Part II considers Laplace's Demon, whose
claim is that the world is completely deterministic. Part III
introduces Maxwell's Demon, who - by contrast - experiences a world
that is probabilistic and indeterministic. Part IV explores
Nietzsche's thesis of the cyclic and eternal recurrence of events.
In each case a number of philosophical consequences regarding
determinism and indeterminism, the arrows of time, the nature of
the mind and free will are said to follow from the Demons's
worldviews. The book investigates what these Demons - and others -
can and cannot tell us about our world.
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