Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with NatureVerso Books, 23 jan 2018 - 384 pagina's A pioneering book that shows how the two great themes of classic science, order and chaos, are being reconciled in a new and unexpected synthesis 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. |
Inhoudsopgave
The Challenge to Science | 1 |
The Triumph of Reason | 27 |
The Identification of the Real | 57 |
The Two Cultures | 79 |
Energy and the Industrial Age | 103 |
The Principle of the Conservation of Energy | 107 |
Heat Engines and the Arrow of Time | 111 |
From Technology to Cosmology | 115 |
Heisenbergs Uncertainty Relation | 222 |
The Temporal Evolution of Quantum Systems | 226 |
A Nonequilibrium Universe | 229 |
The Clash of Doctrines | 233 |
Boltzmanns Breakthrough | 240 |
Questioning Boltzmanns Interpretation | 243 |
Two Separate Worlds | 247 |
Boltzmann and the Arrow of Time | 253 |
The Birth of Entropy | 117 |
Boltzmanns Order Principle | 122 |
Carnot and Darwin | 127 |
The Three Stages of Thermodynamics | 131 |
Linear Thermodynamics | 137 |
Far from Equilibrium | 140 |
Beyond the Threshold of Chemical Instability | 146 |
The Encounter with Molecular Biology | 153 |
Bifurcations and SymmetryBreaking | 160 |
Cascading Bifurcations and the Transitions to Chaos | 167 |
From Euclid to Aristotle | 171 |
Order Through Fluctuations | 177 |
Fluctuations and Correlations | 179 |
The Amplification of Fluctuations | 181 |
Structural Stability | 189 |
Logistic Evolution | 192 |
Evolutionary Feedback | 196 |
Modelizations of Complexity | 203 |
An Open World | 207 |
From Being to Becoming | 211 |
Rediscovering Time | 213 |
The End of Universality | 217 |
The Rise of Quantum Mechanics | 218 |
Irreversibilitythe Entropy Barrier | 257 |
Irreversibility as a SymmetryBreaking Process | 260 |
The Limits of Classical Concepts | 261 |
The Renewal of Dynamics | 264 |
From Randomness to Irreversibility | 272 |
The Entropy Barrier | 277 |
The Dynamics of Correlations | 280 |
Entropy as a Selection Principle | 285 |
Active Matter | 286 |
From Earth to Heaven the Reenchantment of Nature | 291 |
Time and Times | 293 |
The Entropy Barrier | 295 |
The Evolutionary Paradigm | 297 |
Actors and Spectators | 298 |
A Whirlwind in a Turbulent Nature | 301 |
Beyond Tautology | 305 |
The Creative Course of Time | 307 |
The Human Condition | 311 |
The Renewal of Nature | 312 |
NOTES | 315 |
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Order Out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature Isabelle Stengers,Ilya Prigogine Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2018 |
Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature Ilya Prigogine,Isabelle Stengers Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2018 |
Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature Ilya Prigogine,Isabelle Stengers Fragmentweergave - 1984 |
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