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Reductionism, Emergence and Levels of Reality The Importance of Being Borderline /

Scientists have always attempted to explain the world in terms of a few unifying principles. In the fifth century B.C. Democritus boldly claimed that reality is simply a collection of indivisible and eternal parts or atoms. Over the centuries his doctrine has remained a landmark, and much progress i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Chibbaro, Sergio (Autor), Rondoni, Lamberto (Autor), Vulpiani, Angelo (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • A Galilean Dialogue
  • A random journey
  • History
  • Reductionism: the philosophical point of view
  • Reduction in physics and philosophy
  • Emergence
  • A first attempt to tame complexity
  • A short history of statistical mechanics
  • Towards a systematic theory
  • The paradigmatic Brownian motion
  • Critical Phenomena
  • Discussion
  • From microscopic to macroscopic realities
  • The problem of irreversibility
  • Irreversibility and emergence
  • From microscopic to macroscopic equations
  • From atoms to cold fronts
  • Concluding remarks
  • Determinism, chaos and reductionism
  • General remarks on determinism
  • An excursus on chaos
  • Chaos and complexity
  • Chaos and probability
  • Quarrels on chaos and determinism
  • Concluding remarks
  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Classical versus quantum mechanics
  • Chemistry vs applied Quantum Mechanics
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Some conclusions
  • Unity of science beyond reductionism
  • It from bit?
  • Concluding remarks.