Determinism, Holism, and Complexity
Contributors: Claudio Pellegrini (Editor); Paola Cerrai (Editor); Paolo Freguglia (Editor); Vieri Benci (Editor); Giorgio Israel (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: January 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780306474729
Subjects: Biology, Life Sciences; Environmental economics; Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques; Theoretical Physics; Science; Science/Mathematics; General; Life Sciences - Biology - General; PHYSICS; Galilei, Galileo; Nature / Trees; Science / Physics; Science : Life Sciences - Biology - General; Social Science : General; 1564-1642; Congresses; Galilei, Galileo,; Mathematical Physics; Philosophy
First sentence: In a debate on "Complexity and emergence", we should first of all provide clear definitions for these terms, in order to ascertain how much of what we say depends on our cultural bias, is an artifact of our linguistic tools, and how much corresponds to hard facts, to our embedding in an open environment, whose features, even though actively elaborated by our semantic memory, can not be taken as sheer "autopoiesis", but are grounded on an ontology.