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Rethinking Order - After the Laws of Nature (Paperback)
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Rethinking Order - After the Laws of Nature (Paperback)
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This book presents a radical new picture of natural order. The
Newtonian idea of a cosmos ruled by universal and exceptionless
laws has been superseded; replaced by a conception of nature as a
realm of diverse powers, potencies, and dispositions, a 'dappled
world'. There is order in nature, but it is more local, diverse,
piecemeal, open, and emergent than Newton imagined. In each chapter
expert authors expound the historical context of the idea of laws
of nature, and explore the diverse sorts of order actually
presupposed by work in physics, biology, and the social sciences.
They consider how human freedom might be understood, and explore
how Newton's idea of a 'universal designer' might be revised, in
this new context. They argue that there is not one unified
totalizing program of science, aiming at the completion of one
closed causal system. We live in an ordered universe, but we need
to rethink the classical idea of the 'laws of nature' in a more
dynamic and creatively diverse way.
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