Reductionism, Emergence and Levels of Reality The Importance of Being Borderline
If the most radical reductionist point of view is correct, the relationship between disciplines is strictly inclusive: chemistry becomes physics, biology becomes chemistry, and so on. Eventually, only one science, indeed just a single theory, would survive, with all others merging in the Theory of E...
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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