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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... phenomena we observe and describe is quite different from, even opposite to, what was suggested by classical physics. There the basic processes, as we mentioned, are considered as deterministic and reversible. Processes involving ...
... phenomena we observe and describe is quite different from, even opposite to, what was suggested by classical physics. There the basic processes, as we mentioned, are considered as deterministic and reversible. Processes involving ...
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... phenomena illustrate an essential and unexpected property of matter: physics may henceforth describe structures as adapted to outside conditions. We meet in rather simple chemical systems a kind of prebiological adaptation mechanism. To ...
... phenomena illustrate an essential and unexpected property of matter: physics may henceforth describe structures as adapted to outside conditions. We meet in rather simple chemical systems a kind of prebiological adaptation mechanism. To ...
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... phenomena, even with history, is inescapable. Far from opposing “chance” and “necessity,” we now see both aspects as essential in the description of nonlinear systems far from equilibrium. The first two parts of this book thus deal with ...
... phenomena, even with history, is inescapable. Far from opposing “chance” and “necessity,” we now see both aspects as essential in the description of nonlinear systems far from equilibrium. The first two parts of this book thus deal with ...
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... phenomenon. We can imagine situations that are strictly reversible, such as a pendulum in the absence of friction, or planetary motion. This failure has led to discouragement and to the feeling that, in the end, the whole concept of ...
... phenomenon. We can imagine situations that are strictly reversible, such as a pendulum in the absence of friction, or planetary motion. This failure has led to discouragement and to the feeling that, in the end, the whole concept of ...
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... phenomena, thus endowed with a potentially omnipotent knowledge. This brings us back to an issue we have already raised: it is only in a simple world (especially in the world of classical science, where complexity merely veils a ...
... phenomena, thus endowed with a potentially omnipotent knowledge. This brings us back to an issue we have already raised: it is only in a simple world (especially in the world of classical science, where complexity merely veils a ...
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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