LEADER 05900nam 22007695 450 001 9910300398003321 005 20200706053700.0 010 $a3-319-06361-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-06361-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000114380 035 $a(EBL)1731119 035 $a(OCoLC)885122216 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001246996 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11686453 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001246996 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11193227 035 $a(PQKB)11467356 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1731119 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-06361-4 035 $a(PPN)178780014 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000114380 100 $a20140513d2014 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReductionism, Emergence and Levels of Reality $eThe Importance of Being Borderline /$fby Sergio Chibbaro, Lamberto Rondoni, Angelo Vulpiani 205 $a1st ed. 2014. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (171 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-319-06360-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aPreface -- A Galilean Dialogue -- A random journey -- History -- Reductionism: the philosophical point of view -- Reduction in physics and philosophy -- Emergence -- A first attempt to tame complexity -- A short history of statistical mechanics -- Towards a systematic theory -- The paradigmatic Brownian motion -- Critical Phenomena -- Discussion -- From microscopic to macroscopic realities -- The problem of irreversibility -- Irreversibility and emergence -- From microscopic to macroscopic equations -- From atoms to cold fronts -- Concluding remarks -- Determinism, chaos and reductionism -- General remarks on determinism -- An excursus on chaos -- Chaos and complexity -- Chaos and probability -- Quarrels on chaos and determinism -- Concluding remarks -- Quantum Mechanics -- Classical versus quantum mechanics -- Chemistry vs applied Quantum Mechanics -- Summary and conclusions -- Some conclusions -- Unity of science beyond reductionism -- It from bit? -- Concluding remarks. 330 $aScientists have always attempted to explain the world in terms of a few unifying principles. In the fifth century B.C. Democritus boldly claimed that reality is simply a collection of indivisible and eternal parts or atoms. Over the centuries his doctrine has remained a landmark, and much progress in physics is due to its distinction between subjective perception and objective reality. This book discusses theory reduction in physics, which states that the whole is nothing more than the sum of its parts: the properties of things are directly determined by their constituent parts. Reductionism deals with the relation between different theories that address different levels of reality, and uses extrapolations to apply that relation in different sciences. Reality shows a complex structure of connections, and the dream of a unified interpretation of all phenomena in several simple laws continues to attract anyone with genuine philosophical and scientific interests. If the most radical reductionist point of view is correct, the relationship between disciplines is strictly inclusive: chemistry becomes physics, biology becomes chemistry, and so on. Eventually, only one science, indeed just a single theory, would survive, with all others merging in the Theory of Everything. Is the current coexistence of different sciences a mere historical venture which will end when the Theory of Everything has been established? Can there be a unified description of nature?  Rather than an analysis of full reductionism, this book focuses on aspects of theory reduction in physics and stimulates reflection on related questions: is there any evidence of actual reduction? Are the examples used in the philosophy of science too simplistic? What has been endangered by the search for (the) ultimate truth? Has the dream of reductionist reason created any monsters? Is big science one such monster? 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