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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
R3,445 Discovery Miles 34 450 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

Beyond the Dynamical Universe - Unifying Block Universe Physics and Time as Experienced (Hardcover): Michael Silberstein, W.M.... Beyond the Dynamical Universe - Unifying Block Universe Physics and Time as Experienced (Hardcover)
Michael Silberstein, W.M. Stuckey, Timothy McDevitt
R2,940 Discovery Miles 29 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Theoretical physics and foundations of physics have not made much progress in the last few decades. Whether we are talking about unifying general relativity and quantum field theory (quantum gravity), explaining so-called dark energy and dark matter (cosmology), or the interpretation and implications of quantum mechanics and relativity, there is no consensus in sight. In addition, both enterprises are deeply puzzled about various facets of time including above all, time as experienced. The authors argue that, across the board, this impasse is the result of the "dynamical universe paradigm," the idea that reality is fundamentally made up of physical entities that evolve in time from some initial state according to dynamical laws. Thus, in the dynamical universe, the initial conditions plus the dynamical laws explain everything else going exclusively forward in time. In cosmology, for example, the initial conditions reside in the Big Bang and the dynamical law is supplied by general relativity. Accordingly, the present state of the universe is explained exclusively by its past. This book offers a completely new paradigm (called Relational Blockworld), whereby the past, present and future co-determine each other via "adynamical global constraints," such as the least action principle. Accordingly, the future is just as important for explaining the present as is the past. Most of the book is devoted to showing how Relational Blockworld resolves many of the current conundrums of both theoretical physics and foundations of physics, including the mystery of time as experienced and how that experience relates to the block universe.

Mein Glaube - Eine Dichtung (English, German, Paperback): Michael Silberstein Mein Glaube - Eine Dichtung (English, German, Paperback)
Michael Silberstein
R416 R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Save R33 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Die soziale Frage und die mosaische Gesetzgebung - Vortrag gehalten in der Lesegesellschaft zu Munsingen am 3. Marz 1873... Die soziale Frage und die mosaische Gesetzgebung - Vortrag gehalten in der Lesegesellschaft zu Munsingen am 3. Marz 1873 (German, Paperback)
Michael Silberstein
R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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