Philosophy of Complex Systems, Volume 10 (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science)

Philosophy of Complex Systems, Volume 10 (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science)

Language: English

Pages: 952

ISBN: 0444520767

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


The domain of nonlinear dynamical systems and its mathematical underpinnings has been developing exponentially for a century, the last 35 years seeing an outpouring of new ideas and applications and a concomitant confluence with ideas of complex systems and their applications from irreversible thermodynamics. A few examples are in meteorology, ecological dynamics, and social and economic dynamics. These new ideas have profound implications for our understanding and practice in domains involving complexity, predictability and determinism, equilibrium, control, planning, individuality, responsibility and so on.

Our intention is to draw together in this volume, we believe for the first time, a comprehensive picture of the manifold philosophically interesting impacts of recent developments in understanding nonlinear systems and the unique aspects of their complexity. The book will focus specifically on the philosophical concepts, principles, judgments and problems distinctly raised by work in the domain of complex nonlinear dynamical systems, especially in recent years.

-Comprehensive coverage of all main theories in the philosophy of Complex Systems

-Clearly written expositions of fundamental ideas and concepts

-Definitive discussions by leading researchers in the field

-Summaries of leading-edge research in related fields are also included

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between organisation (proper) and other kinds of interdependencies among variables, e.g. those in turbulent flows. I don’t see that it is equipped to do so, since it simply counts interdependencies of all kinds. An aeroplane and a turbulent river could be judged alike in terms of numbers of required variables for behavioural prediction, but would internally be organisationally very different. Unsurprisingly (because C picks up only interdependency), Introduction to philosophy of complex systems:

disciplines and domains (because, e.g., they share the same tools or related problems). And they can change in the same highly idiosyncratic ways. A single visit to another laboratory to learn a new technique can transform an entire research programme and its network. These networks will form no simple patterns, and if e.g. ‘small world’ phenomena indicate that a scientist talks a lot to just a few others, this will in itself be almost wholly uninformative about the importance and dynamics of the

resulting science. There is also the issue of representing the process of creativity within SDAL cycling. Any attempt to model it potentially reduces it to a mechanical process, something that has proven thoroughly elusive to date. It seems that it would do no better justice to it if it were confined to self-organisational processes. Finally, in the eternal formal method/AI machine conception, normativity derives from some realm radically disjoint from (and transcending) factual considerations.

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are not consistent with the local independence and fixedness of particles and substances. 2.4 Thermodynamics Thermodynamics does not require a process metaphysics, but a process framework puts thermodynamic considerations at the center of metaphysical issues. The distinction between energy well forms of stability and far from equilibrium forms of stability, for example, is an explicitly thermodynamic distinction. Elsewhere, it is argued that these distinctions underlie the basic emergences of

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