Emergence in Context

I was both enlightened and informed by the way in which the authors gave a philosophical account of a resolution of the conundrum that arises when one tries to fit molecular structure theory into Schrödinger quantum mechanics. The method that they used seems widely applicable, so the book is surely worth reading by any, who like me, are stuck with a theoretical conundrum.

Auteur

Robert C. Bishop, Professor of Physics and Philosophy, John and Madeleine McIntyre Endowed Professor of Philosophy and History of Science, Wheaton College, USA, Michael Silberstein, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Cognitive Science Program, Department of Philosophy, Elizabethtown College and Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, USA, Mark Pexton, Independent Scholar Robert C. Bishop is the John and Madeleine McIntyre Endowed Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at Wheaton College. His primary research interests are in the history and philosophy of physics, biology, and the social sciences as well as free will. He explores reduction, emergence, and determinism in these areas. He is the author of The Philosophy of the Social Sciences (2007) and The Physics of Emergence (2019). Michael Silberstein is Professor of Philosophy at Elizabethtown College and the Director of the Cognitive Science Program, Core Neuroscience Faculty member, and Affiliated Faculty in the Philosophy Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. His primary research interests are foundations of physics and foundations of cognitive science, respectively. He is also interested in how these branches of philosophy and science bear on more general questions of reduction, emergence, and explanation. His most recent book is Beyond the Dynamical Universe: Unifying Block Universe Physics and Time as Experienced (OUP, 2018). Mark Pexton is an independent philosopher of science specialising in interdisciplinary work. His research areas include: the philosophy of condensed matter physics, causal and non-causal explanations, philosophy of astrophysics, and the science and metaphysics of emergence.

Texte du rabat

Science, philosophy of science, and metaphysics have long been concerned with the question of how order, stability, and novelty are possible and how they happen. How can order come out of disorder? This book introduces a new account, contextual emergence, seeking to answer these questions.