Without hierarchy : the scale freedom of the universe
Thalos, MariamAuthor
This text argues that there is causation at every scale of measurement - countering the philosophical position that causation, or 'activity,' occurs only at the minutest scales of measurement (the scale of microphysics). Thalos's scale-free model, as she shows, is much more hospitable to the models of physicists than are the single-scale models proposed by both reductionists and emergentists.
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This text argues that there is causation at every scale of measurement - countering the philosophical position that causation, or 'activity,' occurs only at the minutest scales of measurement (the scale of microphysics). Thalos's scale-free model, as she shows, is much more hospitable to the models of physicists than are the single-scale models proposed by both reductionists and emergentists.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Towards a theory of science -- Scale freedom recontextualized -- Against the philosophy of a one-scale universe -- Resheathing -- Philosophical foundations of science and metaphysics -- Multiple conceptions of fundamentality -- Why causation is not the cement of the universe -- Moves and movers: notes on the progress of science -- Making sense of order: the true cement of the universe -- Deployments -- Logic of leading and following: dependence and independence among quantities -- Microcosm of unity (of science) that is physics -- Toward a more truth-illuminating metaphysics.
Causation
Science
Physics
Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Sciences - General