UID:
edocfu_9959226880202883
Format:
1 online resource (191 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-05831-6
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9786613058317
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0-226-42982-2
Series Statement:
Science and its conceptual foundations
Content:
Chaos theory has captured scientific and popular attention. What began as the discovery of randomness in simple physical systems has become a widespread fascination with "chaotic" models of everything from business cycles to brainwaves to heart attacks. But what exactly does this explosion of new research into chaotic phenomena mean for our understanding of the world? In this timely book, Stephen Kellert takes the first sustained look at the broad intellectual and philosophical questions raised by recent advances in chaos theory-its implications for science as a source of knowledge and for the very meaning of that knowledge itself.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Prologue --
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1. What Is Chaos Theory? --
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2. Varieties of the Impossible --
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3. Unpeeling the Layers of Determinism --
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4. On the Way to Dynamic Understanding --
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5. Beyond the Clockwork Hegemony --
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References --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-42976-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-42974-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
DOI:
10.7208/9780226429823
