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

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Chibbaro, Sergio (Συγγραφέας), Rondoni, Lamberto (Συγγραφέας), Vulpiani, Angelo (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Θέματα: Physics.; Philosophy and science.; Quantum physics.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Philosophy of Science.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Quantum Physics.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.