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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Table of Contents:
- 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.