0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R2,500 - R5,000 (1)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 1 of 1 matches in All Departments

Emergence in Context - A Treatise in Twenty-First Century Natural Philosophy (Hardcover): Robert C. Bishop, Michael... Emergence in Context - A Treatise in Twenty-First Century Natural Philosophy (Hardcover)
Robert C. Bishop, Michael Silberstein, Mark Pexton
R3,203 Discovery Miles 32 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Science, philosophy of science, and metaphysics have long been concerned with the question of how order, stability, and novelty are possible and how they happen. How can order come out of disorder? This book introduces a new account, contextual emergence, seeking to answer these questions. The authors offer an alternative picture of the world with an alternative account of how novelty and order arise, and how both are possible. Contextual emergence is grounded primarily in the sciences as opposed to logic or metaphysics. It is both an explanatory and ontological account of emergence that gets beyond the impasse between "weak" and "strong" emergence in the emergence debates. It challenges the "foundationalist" or hierarchical picture of reality and emphasizes the ontological and explanatory fundamentality of multiscale stability conditions and their contextual constraints, often operating globally over interconnected, interdependent, and interacting entities and their multiscale relations. It also focuses on the conditions that make the existence, stability, and persistence of emergent systems and their states and observables possible. These conditions and constraints are irreducibly multiscale relations, so it is not surprising that scientific explanation is often multiscale. Such multiscale conditions act as gatekeepers for systems to access modal possibilities (e.g., reducing or enhancing a system's degrees of freedom). Using examples from across the sciences, ranging from physics to biology to neuroscience and beyond, this book demonstrates that there is an empirically well-grounded, viable alternative to ontological reductionism coupled with explanatory anti-reductionism (weak emergence) and ontological disunity coupled with the impossibility of robust scientific explanation (strong emergence). Central metaphysics of science concerns are also addressed. Emergence in Context: A Treatise in Twenty-First Century Natural Philosophy is written primarily for philosophers of science, but also professional scientists from multiple disciplines who are interested in emergence and particularly in the metaphysics of science.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Sony NEW Playstation Dualshock 4 v2…
 (3)
R1,842 R1,450 Discovery Miles 14 500
Bostik Clear in Box (25ml)
R26 Discovery Miles 260
Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey Hardcover R420 R328 Discovery Miles 3 280
Bestway Heavy Duty Repair Patch
R30 R24 Discovery Miles 240
Bosch GBM 320 Professional Drill…
R799 R728 Discovery Miles 7 280
Loot
Nadine Gordimer Paperback  (2)
R383 R310 Discovery Miles 3 100
Loot
Nadine Gordimer Paperback  (2)
R383 R310 Discovery Miles 3 100
Cable Guys Controller and Smartphone…
R399 R359 Discovery Miles 3 590
She Said
Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan, … DVD R93 Discovery Miles 930
Faber-Castell Hex. Aquarelle Colour…
R126 Discovery Miles 1 260

 

Partners