Stuart A Kauffman

Humanity in a Creative Universe

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this fascinating read, Kauffman concludes that the development of life on earth is not entirely predictable, because no theory could ever fully account for the limitless variations of evolution. Sure to cause a stir, this book will be discussed for years to come and may even set the tone for the next great thinker.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 284mm x 192mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780199390458
• ISBN-10: 0199390452
• Artikelnr.: 44345473

Autorenporträt

Stuart A. Kauffman was educated in Philosophy, Psychology and Physiology at Dartmouth and Oxford, obtained his medical degree from UCSF in 1968 and has devoted himself to often seminal work in biology and areas of physics and economics since.

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I: Beyond The Entailing Laws Of Physics and Reductive
Materialism
* A Creative Universe: No Entailing Laws, but Enablement in the
Evolution of the Biosphere
* A Creative Universe: The Social World
* Part II: Towards the Subjective Pole
* Are We Zombies With At Best Witnessing Minds?
* A New Proposed Dualism: Res potentia and Res extensa, Linked by
Quantum Measurement
* Beyond the Stalemate: Answering Descartes With The Poised Realm
* Towards a Quantum, Poised Realm, Classical Theory of Mind Body
* Toward an Ontological Basis for a Responsible Free Will
* The Strong Free Will Theorem, Toward The Subjective Pole
* The Subjective Pole and The Quantum Enigma
* The Creative and Unentailed Quantum Evolution of The Universe
* Beyond Pythagoras: Must We Have Foundations?
* Part III: Who Are We Knowing, Doing, Living Humans In A Creative
Universe?
* Self Organization In The Origin of Life, Agency, and Ontogeny
* Knowing and Being in the World, Aspects of our Humanity
* Beyond Modernity? Can We Partially Co-Create A Civilization That
Serves Our Humanity?