Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason
Philosophy and Simulation is a book about affection - the capacity to affect and be affected by others - an organon for a non-reductive and emergent Theory of Everything, running from inorganic matter to the dawn of civilisation. Moving elegantly between science, history and computer simulation, the book is a fascinating and enormously wide-ranging introduction to DeLanda's singular world-view. —Andrew Pickering, Professor of Sociology and Philosophy, Exeter University, UKPhilosophy and Simulationis a book about affection — the capacity to affect and be affected by others — an organon for a non-reductive and emergent Theory of Everything, running from inorganic matter to the dawn of civilisation. Moving elegantly between science, history and computer simulation, the book is a fascinating and enormously wide-ranging introduction to DeLanda's singular world-view. — Andrew Pickering, Professor of Sociology and Philosophy, Exeter University, UK