Nicholas Rescher

Complexity (eBook, ePUB)

A Philosophical Overview

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Our world is enormously sophisticated and nature's complexity is literally inexhaustible. As a result, projects to describe and explain natural science can never be completed. This volume explores the nature of complexity and considers its bearing on our world and how we manage our affairs within it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000675191
• Artikelnr.: 58782027

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Rescher, distinguished university professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, is currently chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Ways of Complexity 2. The Complexity of the Real 3. Cognitive
Progress in a Complex World: Destabilization and Complexification 4.
Complex Knowledge: The Growth o f Science and the Law of Logarithmic
Returns 5. Technological Escalation and the Exploration Model of Natural
Science 6. The Theoretical Unrealizability of Perfected Science 7.
Extra-terrestrial Science 8. Are There Any Limits to the Problem-Solving
Capacity of Computers 9. Coping with Cognitive Limitations: Problems of
Rationality in a Complex World 10. Technology, Complexity, and Social
Decision 11. Complexity 's Bearing on Philosophical Anthropology