Order Out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature

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Verso Books, 23 jan 2018 - 384 pagina's
Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and acclaimed philosopher Isabelle Stengers offer an exciting and accessible account of the philosophical implications of thermodynamics. Prigogine and Stengers bring contradictory philosophies of time and chance into a novel and ambitious synthesis. Since its first publication in France in 1978, this book has sparked debate among physicists, philosophers, literary critics and historians.

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FOREWORD
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
Energy and the Industrial Age 1 Heat the Rival of Gravitation
The Principle of the Conservation of Energy
CHAPTER VII
The End of Universality
The Rise of Quantum Mechanics
Heisenbergs Uncertainty Relation
The Temporal Evolution of Quantum Systems
A Nonequilibrium Universe
CHAPTER VIII
Boltzmanns Breakthrough

Heat Engines and the Arrow of Time
From Technology to Cosmology
The Birth of Entropy
Boltzmanns Order Principle
Carnot and Darwin
CHAPTER V
Linear Thermodynamics
Far from Equilibrium
Beyond the Threshold of Chemical Instability
The Encounter with Molecular Biology
Bifurcations and SymmetryBreaking
Cascading Bifurcations and the Transitions to Chaos 8 From Euclid to Aristotle
CHAPTER VI
Fluctuations and Correlations
The Amplification of Fluctuations
Structural Stability
Logistic Evolution
Evolutionary Feedback
Modelizations of Complexity
An Open World
From Being to Becoming
Questioning Boltzmanns Interpretation
Two Separate Worlds
Boltzmann and the Arrow of Time
CHAPTER IX
Irreversibility as a SymmetryBreaking Process
The Limits of Classical Concepts
The Renewal of Dynamics
From Randomness to Irreversibility
The Entropy Barrier
The Dynamics of Correlations
Entropy as a Selection Principle
Active Matter
CONCLUSIONS
From Earth to Heaventhe Reenchantment of Nature 1 An Open Science
Time and Times
The Entropy Barrier
The Evolutionary Paradigm
Actors and Spectators
A Whirlwind in a Turbulent Nature
Beyond Tautology
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Isabelle Stengers is a professor of philosophy at the Universit Libre de Bruxelles. Trained as a chemist and philosopher, her publications include Cosmopolitics, a comprehensive reconsideration of the entire history of modern science from Galileo to contemporary complexity theory. She received the grand prize for philosophy from the Acadmie Franaise in 1993.

Viscount Ilya Romanovich Prigogine was a Belgian physical chemist noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems and irreversibility. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1977.

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