The physics of emergence /

This book explores whether physics points to a reductive or an emergent structure of the world and proposes a physics-motivated conception of emergence that leaves behind many of the problematic intuitions shaping the philosophical conceptions. Examining several detailed case studies reveals results...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bishop, Robert C., 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2019]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 6.
IOP concise physics.
Temas:
Emergence (Philosophy)
Physics > Philosophy.
Particle & high-energy physics.
SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Brief history of the debate
  • 1.1. The modern emergentists
  • 1.2. Einstein, Pauli, and Schrödinger
  • 1.3. The return of emergence
  • 1.4. Questioning the hierarchy
  • 1.5. Weinberg and the response to P.W. Anderson
  • 1.6. Universality and independence
  • 2. Some physics objections to emergence
  • 2.1. Physics is fundamentally causally closed
  • 2.2. Fundamental principles/laws govern everything
  • 2.3. Symmetry is reduction
  • 2.4. Coherence of physics and the sciences
  • 2.5. Ontological emergence violates fundamental laws
  • 2.6. Atomism, context and reductionism
  • 2.7. Bare versus dressed states
  • 3. Contextual emergence
  • 3.1. A framework of conditions
  • 3.2. Stability conditions
  • 3.3. Contextual topologies and abstraction
  • 3.4. Contextual topologies and contexts
  • 3.5. Possibility spaces
  • 3.6. Ontic/epistemic states and observables
  • 4. Case studies from physics
  • 4.1. Convection as a contextually-emergent state
  • 4.2. Temperature as a contextually-emergent property
  • 4.3. Molecular structure as a contextually-emergent property
  • 4.4. Brief examples
  • 5. Responding to objections
  • 5.1. Physics is fundamentally causally closed
  • 5.2. Fundamental principles/laws govern everything
  • 5.3. Symmetry is reduction
  • 5.4. Coherence of physics and the sciences
  • 5.5. Ontological emergence violates fundamental laws
  • 5.6. Atomism, context and reductionism
  • 5.7. Is it all just boundary conditions?
  • 5.8. Everything is in the fundamental domain
  • 6. Broader implications
  • 6.1. Redefining fundamentality
  • 6.2. Contextual emergence of the macroscopic
  • 6.3. Implications for the universal wave function
  • 6.4. Laws of nature
  • 6.5. Determinism
  • 6.6. Contextual emergence beyond physics.

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