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. |
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... appears as an excessive simplification. We may compare it to reducing buildings to piles of bricks. Yet out of the same bricks we may construct a factory, a palace, or a cathedral. It is on the level of the building as a whole that we ...
... appears as an excessive simplification. We may compare it to reducing buildings to piles of bricks. Yet out of the same bricks we may construct a factory, a palace, or a cathedral. It is on the level of the building as a whole that we ...
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... appear. Some processes are, as far as we know, well described by deterministic equations, but others involve probabilistic processes. How then can we overcome the apparent contradiction between these concepts? We are living in a single ...
... appear. Some processes are, as far as we know, well described by deterministic equations, but others involve probabilistic processes. How then can we overcome the apparent contradiction between these concepts? We are living in a single ...
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... appears a variety of mechanisms corresponding to the possibility of occurrence of various types of dissipative structures. For example, far from equilibrium we may witness the appearance of chemical clocks, chemical reactions which ...
... appears a variety of mechanisms corresponding to the possibility of occurrence of various types of dissipative structures. For example, far from equilibrium we may witness the appearance of chemical clocks, chemical reactions which ...
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... appears to oppose the “normal” laws of physics, struggling against them to avoid its normal fate —its destruction. On the contrary, life seems to express in a specific way the very conditions in which our biosphere is.
... appears to oppose the “normal” laws of physics, struggling against them to avoid its normal fate —its destruction. On the contrary, life seems to express in a specific way the very conditions in which our biosphere is.
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... appear the most advanced and esoteric and difficult to grasp, are meaningless outside their cultural context. A theoretical science unaware that those of its constructs considered relevant and momentous are destined eventually to be ...
... appear the most advanced and esoteric and difficult to grasp, are meaningless outside their cultural context. A theoretical science unaware that those of its constructs considered relevant and momentous are destined eventually to be ...
Inhoudsopgave
The Amplification of Fluctuations | |
Structural Stability | |
Logistic Evolution | |
Evolutionary Feedback | |
Modelizations of Complexity | |
An Open World | |
From Being to Becoming | |
Rediscovering Time 1 A Change of Emphasis | |
The Identification of the Real 1 Newtons Laws | |
Motion and Change | |
The Language of Dynamics | |
Laplaces Demon | |
The Two Cultures 1 Diderot and the Discourse of the Living | |
Kants Critical Ratification | |
A Philosophy of Nature? Hegel and Bergson | |
Whitehead | |
The Positivists Strain 6 A New Start | |
The Science of Complexity | |
Energy and the Industrial | |
The Principle of the Conservation of Energy | |
Heat Engines and the Arrow of Time | |
From Technology to Cosmology | |
The Birth of Entropy | |
Boltzmanns Order Principle | |
Carnot and Darwin | |
The Three Stages of Thermodynamics 1 Flux and Force | |
Linear Thermodynamics 3 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 | |
Order Through Fluctuations 1 Fluctuations and Chemistry | |
Fluctuations and Correlations | |
The End of Universality | |
The Rise of Quantum Mechanics | |
Heisenbergs Uncertainty Relation | |
The Temporal Evolution of Quantum Systems | |
A Nonequilibrium Universe | |
The Clash of Doctrines | |
Boltzmanns Breakthrough | |
Questioning Boltzmanns Interpretation | |
Two Separate Worlds | |
Boltzmann and the Arrow of Time | |
Irreversibilitythe Entropy Barrier 1 Entropy and the Arrow of Time | |
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 | |
From Earth to Heaventhe Reenchantment of 10 NOTES INDEX 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 | |
The Creative Course of Time | |
The Human Condition | |
The Renewal of Nature | |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
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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