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From Electrons to Elephants and Elections

Exploring the Role of Content and Context
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876 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am09.04.20221st ed. 2022
This highly interdisciplinary book, covering more than six fields, from philosophy and sciences all the way up to the humanities and with contributions from eminent authors, addresses the interplay between content and context, reductionism and holism and their meeting point: the notion of emergence.mehr
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KlappentextThis highly interdisciplinary book, covering more than six fields, from philosophy and sciences all the way up to the humanities and with contributions from eminent authors, addresses the interplay between content and context, reductionism and holism and their meeting point: the notion of emergence.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-030-92191-0
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum09.04.2022
Auflage1st ed. 2022
Seiten876 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
IllustrationenXXX, 876 p. 54 illus., 28 illus. in color.
Artikel-Nr.50271682

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Setting the Context: Are you content in your context.- The Incremental Chain of Being.- Does Linguistics Need (Weak) Emergence?.- Contextual Meaning and Theory Dependence.- Scientific Naturalism and Its Faults.- Scientific Emergentism and the Mutualist Revolution: A New Guiding Picture of Nature, New Methodologies and New Models.- Causation in Buddhist Philosophy.- A realistic view of causation in the real world.- Where Is the Top and What Might Go Down?.- Multiplicity, Logical Openness, Incompleteness, and Quasi-ness as Peculiar Non-reductionist Properties of Complexity.- Micro-latency, Holism and Emergence.- Enactive Realism. A first look at a new theoretical synthesis.- Holism and pseudoholism.- Explanatory Emergence, Metaphysical Emergence, and the Metaphysical Primacy of Physics.- Contextual Emergence: Constituents, Context and Meaning.- Mathematics/Theoretical Physics: Contents, Contexts, and Basics of Contextuality.- Content, Context, and Naturalism in Mathematics.- Shared mathematical content in the context of complex systems.- United but not Uniform: Our Fecund Universe.- Probability, Typicality and Emergence in Statistical Mechanics.- The metal: a model for modern physics.- Spacetime Emergence: Collapsing the Distinction Between Content and Context?.- Topological quantum field theory and the emergence of physical space-time from geometry: new insights into the interactions between geometry and physics.- The Electron And The Cosmos: From The Universe Of Fragmented Objects To The Particle-world, Leonardo Chiatti.- A novel feature of atomicity in the laws of nature : Quantum theory against reductionism.- Geometric And Exotic Contextuality In Quantum Reality.- Quantum identity, content, and context: from classical to non-classical logic.- Contextual Probability in Quantum Physics, Cognition, Psychology, Social Science, and Artificial Intelligence.- Cognitive Science/Computer Science: Nothing will come of Everything: Software Towers and Quantum Towers.- The Quantum-like Behavior of Neural Networks.- Concepts, Experts, and Deep Learning.- A route to intelligence: oversimplify and self-monitor.- Context is King: Contextual Emergence in Network Neuroscience, Cognitive Science and Psychology.- From Electrons to Elephants: Context and Consciousness.- When two levels collide.- Biology: Some remarks on epigenetics and causality in the biological world.- Can agency be reduced to molecules?.- The Epistemology of Life: Understanding living beings according to a relational ontology.- Holism and Reductionism in the illness/disease debate.- About Context, Fiction, and Schizophrenia.- Humanities and Social Sciences: On the Explanation of Social and Societal Facts .- On the irreversible journey of matter, life and human culture.- Architecture and Big Data: From Scale to Capacity.- Being or Tea?.- Art is Critical.mehr

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Autor

Shyam Wuppuluri is the recipient of the 2020 Albert-Einstein Fellowship at Caputh and is an elected fellow of The Royal Society of Arts. He teaches at Mumbai and has a long standing interest in foundations of sciences and philosophy. As a lead editor, he has published several highly interdisciplinary volumes on various themes including "The Map and the Territory: Exploring the Foundations of Science, Thought and Reality" and "Space, Time and the Limits of Human Understanding".

Ian Stewart FRS is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick and author or coauthor of over 200 research papers on pattern formation, chaos, network dynamics, and biomathematics. He has been a Fellow of The Royal Society since 2001, and has served on Council, its governing body. He has five honorary doctorates. He has published more than 120 books including "Singularities and Groups in Bifurcation Theory", "The Symmetry Perspective", popular mathematics books "Why Beauty is Truth", "Calculating the Cosmos", "Significant Figures", "What's the Use?", and the four-volume series "The Science of Discworld" with the late Sir Terry Pratchett and Jack Cohen. His awards include the Royal Society's Faraday Medal, the Gold Medal of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, the Zeeman Medal (IMA and London Mathematical Society), the Lewis Thomas Prize (Rockefeller University), and the Euler Book Prize (Mathematical Association of America).