M. Norton Wise
Growing Explanations
Historical Perspectives on Recent Science
Herausgeber: Wise, M Norton
M. Norton Wise
Growing Explanations
Historical Perspectives on Recent Science
Herausgeber: Wise, M Norton
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This collection addresses a post-WWII shift in the hierarchy of scientific explanations, where the highest goal moves from reductionism towards some understanding of how elementary objects get built up, or "grown up," into complex, objects whose
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This collection addresses a post-WWII shift in the hierarchy of scientific explanations, where the highest goal moves from reductionism towards some understanding of how elementary objects get built up, or "grown up," into complex, objects whose
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Duke University Press
- Seitenzahl: 360
- Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2004
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 150mm x 24mm
- Gewicht: 494g
- ISBN-13: 9780822333197
- ISBN-10: 0822333198
- Artikelnr.: 14414721
- Verlag: Duke University Press
- Seitenzahl: 360
- Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2004
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 150mm x 24mm
- Gewicht: 494g
- ISBN-13: 9780822333197
- ISBN-10: 0822333198
- Artikelnr.: 14414721
M. Norton Wise, ed.
Introduction: dynamincs all the way up / M. Norton Wise 1
Part I Mathematics, physics, and engineering
Elementary particles? `
1. Mirror symmetry: persons, values, and objects / Peter Galison 23
Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
2. Chaos, disorder, and mixing: a new fin-de-siecle image of science? / Amy
Dahan Dalmedico 67
3. Forms of explanation in the catastrophe theory of Rene Thjom: topology,
morphogenesis, and structuralism / David Aubin 95
Coping with complexity in technology
4. From Boeing to Berkeley: civil engineers, the cold war, and the origins
of finite element analysis / Ann Johnson 133
5. Fuzzyfying the world: social practices of showing the properties of
fuzzy logic / Claude Rosental 159
Part II The organism, the self, and (artificial) life
Self-Organization
6. Marrying the premodern to the postmodern: computers and organisms after
World War II / Evelyn Fox Keller 181
Immunology
7. Immunology and the enigma of selfhood / Alfred I. Tauber 201
8. Immunology of AIDS: growning explanations and developing instruments /
Ilana Lowy 222
Artificial Life
9. Artificial life support: some nodes in the Alife ribotype / Richard
Doyle 251
10. The word for world is computer: simulating second natures in artificial
life / Stefan Helmreich 275
11. Constructing and explaining emergence in artificial life: on paradigms,
ontodefinitions, and general knowledge in biology / Claus Emmeche 301
Afterword 327
Contributors 333
Index 337
Part I Mathematics, physics, and engineering
Elementary particles? `
1. Mirror symmetry: persons, values, and objects / Peter Galison 23
Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
2. Chaos, disorder, and mixing: a new fin-de-siecle image of science? / Amy
Dahan Dalmedico 67
3. Forms of explanation in the catastrophe theory of Rene Thjom: topology,
morphogenesis, and structuralism / David Aubin 95
Coping with complexity in technology
4. From Boeing to Berkeley: civil engineers, the cold war, and the origins
of finite element analysis / Ann Johnson 133
5. Fuzzyfying the world: social practices of showing the properties of
fuzzy logic / Claude Rosental 159
Part II The organism, the self, and (artificial) life
Self-Organization
6. Marrying the premodern to the postmodern: computers and organisms after
World War II / Evelyn Fox Keller 181
Immunology
7. Immunology and the enigma of selfhood / Alfred I. Tauber 201
8. Immunology of AIDS: growning explanations and developing instruments /
Ilana Lowy 222
Artificial Life
9. Artificial life support: some nodes in the Alife ribotype / Richard
Doyle 251
10. The word for world is computer: simulating second natures in artificial
life / Stefan Helmreich 275
11. Constructing and explaining emergence in artificial life: on paradigms,
ontodefinitions, and general knowledge in biology / Claus Emmeche 301
Afterword 327
Contributors 333
Index 337
Introduction: dynamincs all the way up / M. Norton Wise 1
Part I Mathematics, physics, and engineering
Elementary particles? `
1. Mirror symmetry: persons, values, and objects / Peter Galison 23
Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
2. Chaos, disorder, and mixing: a new fin-de-siecle image of science? / Amy
Dahan Dalmedico 67
3. Forms of explanation in the catastrophe theory of Rene Thjom: topology,
morphogenesis, and structuralism / David Aubin 95
Coping with complexity in technology
4. From Boeing to Berkeley: civil engineers, the cold war, and the origins
of finite element analysis / Ann Johnson 133
5. Fuzzyfying the world: social practices of showing the properties of
fuzzy logic / Claude Rosental 159
Part II The organism, the self, and (artificial) life
Self-Organization
6. Marrying the premodern to the postmodern: computers and organisms after
World War II / Evelyn Fox Keller 181
Immunology
7. Immunology and the enigma of selfhood / Alfred I. Tauber 201
8. Immunology of AIDS: growning explanations and developing instruments /
Ilana Lowy 222
Artificial Life
9. Artificial life support: some nodes in the Alife ribotype / Richard
Doyle 251
10. The word for world is computer: simulating second natures in artificial
life / Stefan Helmreich 275
11. Constructing and explaining emergence in artificial life: on paradigms,
ontodefinitions, and general knowledge in biology / Claus Emmeche 301
Afterword 327
Contributors 333
Index 337
Part I Mathematics, physics, and engineering
Elementary particles? `
1. Mirror symmetry: persons, values, and objects / Peter Galison 23
Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
2. Chaos, disorder, and mixing: a new fin-de-siecle image of science? / Amy
Dahan Dalmedico 67
3. Forms of explanation in the catastrophe theory of Rene Thjom: topology,
morphogenesis, and structuralism / David Aubin 95
Coping with complexity in technology
4. From Boeing to Berkeley: civil engineers, the cold war, and the origins
of finite element analysis / Ann Johnson 133
5. Fuzzyfying the world: social practices of showing the properties of
fuzzy logic / Claude Rosental 159
Part II The organism, the self, and (artificial) life
Self-Organization
6. Marrying the premodern to the postmodern: computers and organisms after
World War II / Evelyn Fox Keller 181
Immunology
7. Immunology and the enigma of selfhood / Alfred I. Tauber 201
8. Immunology of AIDS: growning explanations and developing instruments /
Ilana Lowy 222
Artificial Life
9. Artificial life support: some nodes in the Alife ribotype / Richard
Doyle 251
10. The word for world is computer: simulating second natures in artificial
life / Stefan Helmreich 275
11. Constructing and explaining emergence in artificial life: on paradigms,
ontodefinitions, and general knowledge in biology / Claus Emmeche 301
Afterword 327
Contributors 333
Index 337