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World Scientific series in materials and energy
| World Scientific series in materials and energy |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Jersey, : World Scientific |
| ISSN | 2335-6596 |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | und |
| Record Nr. | UNISANNIO-NAP0596798 |
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World scientific series on nonlinear science. Series A, monographs and treatises
| World scientific series on nonlinear science. Series A, monographs and treatises |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore ; River Edge (NJ), : World Scientific, c1993- |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | und |
| Record Nr. | UNISANNIO-NAP0420474 |
| Singapore ; River Edge (NJ), : World Scientific, c1993- | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Sannio | ||
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The world turned upside down [[electronic resource] ] : the complex partnership between China and Latin America / / Alfredo Toro Hardy
| The world turned upside down [[electronic resource] ] : the complex partnership between China and Latin America / / Alfredo Toro Hardy |
| Autore | Toro Hardy Alfredo <1950-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
| Disciplina | 337.5108 |
| Collana | Series on contemporary China |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 981-4452-57-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword by Geoffrey Hawthorn; Foreword by Xulio Ríos; Foreword by L. Enrique García; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Endnotes; Chapter 1 Emerging China; Shareholder capitalism versus stakeholder capitalism; The Washington Consensus; The GATT Uruguay Round; The pendulum starts swinging back; The Asian crisis; The Beijing Consensus; The Singapore model; China and the developing world; The Lewis turning point; China's ruder; Chapter 2 A Declining West; Mighty Chiindia; The Indian model; A multicultural globalisation; The Global South and shareholder capitalism
The West: An embattled fortressThe United States lagging behind; Obama's response to a rising China; 2008: The American decline; The Euro zone's nightmare; Timing incompatibility and incompatible objectives; Japan's three "D"s; The West's lonely band; Decoupling; Chapter 3 A Dragon in Latin Lands; The dragon that appeared from nowhere; What is Latin America?; Latin America plus the Caribbean; The import-substituting industrialisation process; Flaws, results and implosion; Opening of the gates; China's redeeming virtue; Mexican-type economies; Brazilian-type economies China's investments and loansThe in between economies; Commodities: Curse or development opportunity?; Chapter 4 Is There a Future for Latin America?; Between China's torch and technology's Damocles sword; Where does Latin America go from here?; Commodities exporters' first steps; The Belindia syndrome; Services: The new exports frontier; Global chains of value; Infrastructural development; Sovereign wealth funds; White paper and negotiations; Conclusion; Bibliography; About the Author; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462831503321 |
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| Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2013 | ||
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The world turned upside down : the complex partnership between China and Latin America / / Alfredo Toro Hardy
| The world turned upside down : the complex partnership between China and Latin America / / Alfredo Toro Hardy |
| Autore | Toro Hardy Alfredo <1950-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxiv, 243 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina | 337.5108 |
| Collana |
Series on contemporary China
Gale eBooks |
| ISBN | 981-4452-57-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword by Geoffrey Hawthorn; Foreword by Xulio Ríos; Foreword by L. Enrique García; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Endnotes; Chapter 1 Emerging China; Shareholder capitalism versus stakeholder capitalism; The Washington Consensus; The GATT Uruguay Round; The pendulum starts swinging back; The Asian crisis; The Beijing Consensus; The Singapore model; China and the developing world; The Lewis turning point; China's ruder; Chapter 2 A Declining West; Mighty Chiindia; The Indian model; A multicultural globalisation; The Global South and shareholder capitalism
The West: An embattled fortressThe United States lagging behind; Obama's response to a rising China; 2008: The American decline; The Euro zone's nightmare; Timing incompatibility and incompatible objectives; Japan's three "D"s; The West's lonely band; Decoupling; Chapter 3 A Dragon in Latin Lands; The dragon that appeared from nowhere; What is Latin America?; Latin America plus the Caribbean; The import-substituting industrialisation process; Flaws, results and implosion; Opening of the gates; China's redeeming virtue; Mexican-type economies; Brazilian-type economies China's investments and loansThe in between economies; Commodities: Curse or development opportunity?; Chapter 4 Is There a Future for Latin America?; Between China's torch and technology's Damocles sword; Where does Latin America go from here?; Commodities exporters' first steps; The Belindia syndrome; Services: The new exports frontier; Global chains of value; Infrastructural development; Sovereign wealth funds; White paper and negotiations; Conclusion; Bibliography; About the Author; Index |
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| Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2013 | ||
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The world turned upside down : the complex partnership between China and Latin America / / Alfredo Toro Hardy
| The world turned upside down : the complex partnership between China and Latin America / / Alfredo Toro Hardy |
| Autore | Toro Hardy Alfredo <1950-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxiv, 243 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina | 337.5108 |
| Collana |
Series on contemporary China
Gale eBooks |
| ISBN | 981-4452-57-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword by Geoffrey Hawthorn; Foreword by Xulio Ríos; Foreword by L. Enrique García; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Endnotes; Chapter 1 Emerging China; Shareholder capitalism versus stakeholder capitalism; The Washington Consensus; The GATT Uruguay Round; The pendulum starts swinging back; The Asian crisis; The Beijing Consensus; The Singapore model; China and the developing world; The Lewis turning point; China's ruder; Chapter 2 A Declining West; Mighty Chiindia; The Indian model; A multicultural globalisation; The Global South and shareholder capitalism
The West: An embattled fortressThe United States lagging behind; Obama's response to a rising China; 2008: The American decline; The Euro zone's nightmare; Timing incompatibility and incompatible objectives; Japan's three "D"s; The West's lonely band; Decoupling; Chapter 3 A Dragon in Latin Lands; The dragon that appeared from nowhere; What is Latin America?; Latin America plus the Caribbean; The import-substituting industrialisation process; Flaws, results and implosion; Opening of the gates; China's redeeming virtue; Mexican-type economies; Brazilian-type economies China's investments and loansThe in between economies; Commodities: Curse or development opportunity?; Chapter 4 Is There a Future for Latin America?; Between China's torch and technology's Damocles sword; Where does Latin America go from here?; Commodities exporters' first steps; The Belindia syndrome; Services: The new exports frontier; Global chains of value; Infrastructural development; Sovereign wealth funds; White paper and negotiations; Conclusion; Bibliography; About the Author; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809493903321 |
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Toro Hardy Alfredo <1950->
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| Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Worldviews, science and us [[electronic resource] ] : interdisciplinary perspectives on worlds, cultures and society / / editors, Diederik Aerts ... [et al.]
| Worldviews, science and us [[electronic resource] ] : interdisciplinary perspectives on worlds, cultures and society / / editors, Diederik Aerts ... [et al.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (227 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.483 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | AertsDiederik <1953-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy
Science - Social aspects Knowledge, Theory of |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-23509-9
9786613235091 981-4355-06-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Worlds, Cultures and Society Diederik Aerts, Bart D'Hooghe, Rik Pinxten and Immanuel Wallerstein; Why Consciousness has No Plural Koen Stroeken; 1. Introduction; 2. Towards an Anthropic Quantology; 3. Meaning is Matter; 4. Infinity and Contingency; 5. Self-Organization as Free Destiny; 6. Conclusion: Physical Dualism; Acknowledgments; References; The Relevance of a Non-Colonial View on Science and Knowledge for an Open Perspective on the World Rik Pinxten; 1. The Colonial Attitude; 2. Overcoming the Colonial Attitude
3. Anthropology Looks in its MirrorReferences; An Atlas for the Social World: What Should It (not) Look Like? Interdisciplinarity and Pluralism in the Social Sciences Jeroen Van Bouwel; 1. Introduction; 2. The Social Sciences, the Puzzle and the Maps; 3. Interdisciplinary Strategies: Collaboration and Division of Labour between the Social Scientific Disciplines; 3.1. Imperialism or Colonisation; 3.2. Insulation; 3.3. Collaboration Leading to a New Synthesis; 3.4. The Question-Driven Strategy; 4. Defending Question-Driven Interdisciplinarity for Drawing the Atlas 4.1. Providing Good Explanations4.2. Interdisciplinary Strategies Evaluated; 4.3. Defending Question-Driven Interdisciplinarity; 5. Elaborating the Atlas in Economics; 5.1. The Impact of Globalisation; 5.2. Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Economics; 5.3. Critical Realism in Economics and its Pleas for Pluralism; 5.4. Question-Driven Interdisciplinarity and the Map Metaphor; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Worlds of Legitimate Welfare Arrangements: A Realistic Utopia on Pensions Patricia Frericks and Robert Maier; 1. Introduction; 2. Norms Derived from the Dynamic of Citizenship 3. Preconditions and Characteristics of Pension Systems4. Male Breadwinner Systems and (Limited) Individualization: Non-Fit of Pension Systems; 5. Realistic Utopia; 5.1. Basic Pensions; 5.2. Complementary Pensions; 5.2.1. Second layer pensions; 5.2.2. Third layer pensions; 6. Coming Full Circle: Citizenship and Pensions; 7. Final Remarks; References; Imagination and Empathy as Conditions for Interpersonal Understanding in the Context of a Facilitating Worldview Hans Alma and Adri Smaling; 1. Introduction; 2. Criticisms on Empathic Understanding; 2.1. Empirical-Analytical Philosophy 2.2. Hermeneutic Philosophy3. Appreciations of Empathic Understanding; 3.1. Philosophy of Science; 3.2. Phenomenological Philosophy; 3.3. Psychotherapy and Counseling; 3.4. Methodology of Social Scientific Research; 4. Towards a Conception of Optimal Empathic Understanding; 5. Imagination; 5.1. Imagination as Part of the Mental Dimension of Empathic Understanding; 5.2. The Social Dimension of Imagination; 6. Worldview; 7. Conclusion; References; Worldview as Relational Notion? Reconsidering the Relations Between Worldviews, Science and Us from a Radical Symmetrical Anthropology Lieve Orye 1. Worldview, Map and Orientation |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464553403321 |
| Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Worldviews, science and us [[electronic resource] ] : interdisciplinary perspectives on worlds, cultures and society / / editors, Diederik Aerts ... [et al.]
| Worldviews, science and us [[electronic resource] ] : interdisciplinary perspectives on worlds, cultures and society / / editors, Diederik Aerts ... [et al.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (227 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.483 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | AertsDiederik <1953-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy
Science - Social aspects Knowledge, Theory of |
| ISBN |
1-283-23509-9
9786613235091 981-4355-06-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Worlds, Cultures and Society Diederik Aerts, Bart D'Hooghe, Rik Pinxten and Immanuel Wallerstein; Why Consciousness has No Plural Koen Stroeken; 1. Introduction; 2. Towards an Anthropic Quantology; 3. Meaning is Matter; 4. Infinity and Contingency; 5. Self-Organization as Free Destiny; 6. Conclusion: Physical Dualism; Acknowledgments; References; The Relevance of a Non-Colonial View on Science and Knowledge for an Open Perspective on the World Rik Pinxten; 1. The Colonial Attitude; 2. Overcoming the Colonial Attitude
3. Anthropology Looks in its MirrorReferences; An Atlas for the Social World: What Should It (not) Look Like? Interdisciplinarity and Pluralism in the Social Sciences Jeroen Van Bouwel; 1. Introduction; 2. The Social Sciences, the Puzzle and the Maps; 3. Interdisciplinary Strategies: Collaboration and Division of Labour between the Social Scientific Disciplines; 3.1. Imperialism or Colonisation; 3.2. Insulation; 3.3. Collaboration Leading to a New Synthesis; 3.4. The Question-Driven Strategy; 4. Defending Question-Driven Interdisciplinarity for Drawing the Atlas 4.1. Providing Good Explanations4.2. Interdisciplinary Strategies Evaluated; 4.3. Defending Question-Driven Interdisciplinarity; 5. Elaborating the Atlas in Economics; 5.1. The Impact of Globalisation; 5.2. Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Economics; 5.3. Critical Realism in Economics and its Pleas for Pluralism; 5.4. Question-Driven Interdisciplinarity and the Map Metaphor; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Worlds of Legitimate Welfare Arrangements: A Realistic Utopia on Pensions Patricia Frericks and Robert Maier; 1. Introduction; 2. Norms Derived from the Dynamic of Citizenship 3. Preconditions and Characteristics of Pension Systems4. Male Breadwinner Systems and (Limited) Individualization: Non-Fit of Pension Systems; 5. Realistic Utopia; 5.1. Basic Pensions; 5.2. Complementary Pensions; 5.2.1. Second layer pensions; 5.2.2. Third layer pensions; 6. Coming Full Circle: Citizenship and Pensions; 7. Final Remarks; References; Imagination and Empathy as Conditions for Interpersonal Understanding in the Context of a Facilitating Worldview Hans Alma and Adri Smaling; 1. Introduction; 2. Criticisms on Empathic Understanding; 2.1. Empirical-Analytical Philosophy 2.2. Hermeneutic Philosophy3. Appreciations of Empathic Understanding; 3.1. Philosophy of Science; 3.2. Phenomenological Philosophy; 3.3. Psychotherapy and Counseling; 3.4. Methodology of Social Scientific Research; 4. Towards a Conception of Optimal Empathic Understanding; 5. Imagination; 5.1. Imagination as Part of the Mental Dimension of Empathic Understanding; 5.2. The Social Dimension of Imagination; 6. Worldview; 7. Conclusion; References; Worldview as Relational Notion? Reconsidering the Relations Between Worldviews, Science and Us from a Radical Symmetrical Anthropology Lieve Orye 1. Worldview, Map and Orientation |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789070203321 |
| Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Worldviews, science and us [[electronic resource] ] : interdisciplinary perspectives on worlds, cultures and society / / editors, Diederik Aerts ... [et al.]
| Worldviews, science and us [[electronic resource] ] : interdisciplinary perspectives on worlds, cultures and society / / editors, Diederik Aerts ... [et al.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (227 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.483 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | AertsDiederik <1953-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy
Science - Social aspects Knowledge, Theory of |
| ISBN |
1-283-23509-9
9786613235091 981-4355-06-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Worlds, Cultures and Society Diederik Aerts, Bart D'Hooghe, Rik Pinxten and Immanuel Wallerstein; Why Consciousness has No Plural Koen Stroeken; 1. Introduction; 2. Towards an Anthropic Quantology; 3. Meaning is Matter; 4. Infinity and Contingency; 5. Self-Organization as Free Destiny; 6. Conclusion: Physical Dualism; Acknowledgments; References; The Relevance of a Non-Colonial View on Science and Knowledge for an Open Perspective on the World Rik Pinxten; 1. The Colonial Attitude; 2. Overcoming the Colonial Attitude
3. Anthropology Looks in its MirrorReferences; An Atlas for the Social World: What Should It (not) Look Like? Interdisciplinarity and Pluralism in the Social Sciences Jeroen Van Bouwel; 1. Introduction; 2. The Social Sciences, the Puzzle and the Maps; 3. Interdisciplinary Strategies: Collaboration and Division of Labour between the Social Scientific Disciplines; 3.1. Imperialism or Colonisation; 3.2. Insulation; 3.3. Collaboration Leading to a New Synthesis; 3.4. The Question-Driven Strategy; 4. Defending Question-Driven Interdisciplinarity for Drawing the Atlas 4.1. Providing Good Explanations4.2. Interdisciplinary Strategies Evaluated; 4.3. Defending Question-Driven Interdisciplinarity; 5. Elaborating the Atlas in Economics; 5.1. The Impact of Globalisation; 5.2. Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Economics; 5.3. Critical Realism in Economics and its Pleas for Pluralism; 5.4. Question-Driven Interdisciplinarity and the Map Metaphor; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Worlds of Legitimate Welfare Arrangements: A Realistic Utopia on Pensions Patricia Frericks and Robert Maier; 1. Introduction; 2. Norms Derived from the Dynamic of Citizenship 3. Preconditions and Characteristics of Pension Systems4. Male Breadwinner Systems and (Limited) Individualization: Non-Fit of Pension Systems; 5. Realistic Utopia; 5.1. Basic Pensions; 5.2. Complementary Pensions; 5.2.1. Second layer pensions; 5.2.2. Third layer pensions; 6. Coming Full Circle: Citizenship and Pensions; 7. Final Remarks; References; Imagination and Empathy as Conditions for Interpersonal Understanding in the Context of a Facilitating Worldview Hans Alma and Adri Smaling; 1. Introduction; 2. Criticisms on Empathic Understanding; 2.1. Empirical-Analytical Philosophy 2.2. Hermeneutic Philosophy3. Appreciations of Empathic Understanding; 3.1. Philosophy of Science; 3.2. Phenomenological Philosophy; 3.3. Psychotherapy and Counseling; 3.4. Methodology of Social Scientific Research; 4. Towards a Conception of Optimal Empathic Understanding; 5. Imagination; 5.1. Imagination as Part of the Mental Dimension of Empathic Understanding; 5.2. The Social Dimension of Imagination; 6. Worldview; 7. Conclusion; References; Worldview as Relational Notion? Reconsidering the Relations Between Worldviews, Science and Us from a Radical Symmetrical Anthropology Lieve Orye 1. Worldview, Map and Orientation |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827252603321 |
| Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Worldviews, science and us [[electronic resource] ] : philosophy and complexity : University of Liverpool, UK, 11-14 September 2005 / / editors, Carlos Gershenson, Diederik Aerts, Bruce Edmonds
| Worldviews, science and us [[electronic resource] ] : philosophy and complexity : University of Liverpool, UK, 11-14 September 2005 / / editors, Carlos Gershenson, Diederik Aerts, Bruce Edmonds |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Jersey, : World Scientific, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (359 p.) |
| Disciplina | 501 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GershensonCarlos
AertsDiederik <1953-> EdmondsBruce |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy
Science - Social aspects Knowledge, Theory of |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-12149-5
9786611121495 981-270-742-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; Introduction Carlos Gershenson, Diederik Aerts and Bruce Edmonds; References; Restricted Complexity, General Complexity Edgar Morin; 1. The three principles of the rejection of complexity by 'classical science'; 2. Complexity: A first breach: irreversibility; 3. Interaction Order/Disorder/Organization; 4. Chaos; 5. The emergence of the notion of complexity; 6. Generalized complexity; 7. System: It should be conceived that "any system is complex"; 8. Emergence of the notion of emergence; 9. The complexity of organization; 10. The self-eco-organization
11. The relationship between local and global12. Heraclitus: "live of death, die of life"; 13. On non-trivial machines; 14. To complexify the notion of chaos; 15. The need of contextualization; 16. The hologrammatic and dialogical principles; 17. For the sciences, a certain number of consequences; 18. Two scientific revolutions introduced complexity de facto; 19. The insertion of science in History; 20. The link between science and philosophy; 21. Second epistemological rupture with restricted complexity; 22. The principle of ecology of action; 23. Creating "Institutes of fundamental culture" 24. I conclude: generalized complexity integrates restricted complexity25. We should even apprehend the possibilities of metamorphosis; Complexity Science as an Aspect of the Complexity of Science Don C. Mikulecky; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1. The largest Model; 1.2. Why is the whole more than the sum of its parts?; 1.3. Causality and information: Science of method and science of content; 1.4. Which is generic, physics or biology?; 1.5. Analytic vs. synthetic models; 1.6. Fragmentability; 1.7. Computability; 2. SCIENCE AS A COMPLEX SYSTEM; 3. COMPLEXITY AS AN ATTRIBUTE OF NATURE 3.1. Hard Science is built on Cartesian Reductionism3.2. The Newtonian paradigm is the modern manifestation of hard science; 3.3. Complexity is the result of the failure of the Newtonian Paradigm to be generic; 3.4. The way science is done: The modeling relation; 3.5. Complex systems and simple systems are disjoint categories that are related by the modeling relation; 4. THERMODYNAMIC REASONING AS A TRANSITION TO COMPLEXITY SCIENCE; 4.1. Classical or ""equilibrium" thermodynamics and its limits; 4.2. Dissipation, friction, and irreversibility 4.3. Preserving the paradigm involved considering friction, irreversibility and dissipation4.4. Framing the question in science:" Don't think about the whole system"; 4.5. Reductionism needs a particular kind of mathematics to accomplish its goals; 4.6. Topological reasoning in thermodynamics leads to powerful results; 5. Will science extend to the modeling of complex reality or will it be restricted to the limited domain of the largest model formalism it clings to?; References; On the Importance of a Certain Slowness Paul Cilliers; 1. Introduction; 2. Living in the Present 3. Complex Systems, Temporality and Memory |
| Altri titoli varianti | Philosophy and complexity |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450683703321 |
| New Jersey, : World Scientific, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Worldviews, science and us [[electronic resource] ] : philosophy and complexity : University of Liverpool, UK, 11-14 September 2005 / / editors, Carlos Gershenson, Diederik Aerts, Bruce Edmonds
| Worldviews, science and us [[electronic resource] ] : philosophy and complexity : University of Liverpool, UK, 11-14 September 2005 / / editors, Carlos Gershenson, Diederik Aerts, Bruce Edmonds |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Jersey, : World Scientific, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (359 p.) |
| Disciplina | 501 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GershensonCarlos
AertsDiederik <1953-> EdmondsBruce |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy
Science - Social aspects Knowledge, Theory of |
| ISBN |
1-281-12149-5
9786611121495 981-270-742-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; Introduction Carlos Gershenson, Diederik Aerts and Bruce Edmonds; References; Restricted Complexity, General Complexity Edgar Morin; 1. The three principles of the rejection of complexity by 'classical science'; 2. Complexity: A first breach: irreversibility; 3. Interaction Order/Disorder/Organization; 4. Chaos; 5. The emergence of the notion of complexity; 6. Generalized complexity; 7. System: It should be conceived that "any system is complex"; 8. Emergence of the notion of emergence; 9. The complexity of organization; 10. The self-eco-organization
11. The relationship between local and global12. Heraclitus: "live of death, die of life"; 13. On non-trivial machines; 14. To complexify the notion of chaos; 15. The need of contextualization; 16. The hologrammatic and dialogical principles; 17. For the sciences, a certain number of consequences; 18. Two scientific revolutions introduced complexity de facto; 19. The insertion of science in History; 20. The link between science and philosophy; 21. Second epistemological rupture with restricted complexity; 22. The principle of ecology of action; 23. Creating "Institutes of fundamental culture" 24. I conclude: generalized complexity integrates restricted complexity25. We should even apprehend the possibilities of metamorphosis; Complexity Science as an Aspect of the Complexity of Science Don C. Mikulecky; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1. The largest Model; 1.2. Why is the whole more than the sum of its parts?; 1.3. Causality and information: Science of method and science of content; 1.4. Which is generic, physics or biology?; 1.5. Analytic vs. synthetic models; 1.6. Fragmentability; 1.7. Computability; 2. SCIENCE AS A COMPLEX SYSTEM; 3. COMPLEXITY AS AN ATTRIBUTE OF NATURE 3.1. Hard Science is built on Cartesian Reductionism3.2. The Newtonian paradigm is the modern manifestation of hard science; 3.3. Complexity is the result of the failure of the Newtonian Paradigm to be generic; 3.4. The way science is done: The modeling relation; 3.5. Complex systems and simple systems are disjoint categories that are related by the modeling relation; 4. THERMODYNAMIC REASONING AS A TRANSITION TO COMPLEXITY SCIENCE; 4.1. Classical or ""equilibrium" thermodynamics and its limits; 4.2. Dissipation, friction, and irreversibility 4.3. Preserving the paradigm involved considering friction, irreversibility and dissipation4.4. Framing the question in science:" Don't think about the whole system"; 4.5. Reductionism needs a particular kind of mathematics to accomplish its goals; 4.6. Topological reasoning in thermodynamics leads to powerful results; 5. Will science extend to the modeling of complex reality or will it be restricted to the limited domain of the largest model formalism it clings to?; References; On the Importance of a Certain Slowness Paul Cilliers; 1. Introduction; 2. Living in the Present 3. Complex Systems, Temporality and Memory |
| Altri titoli varianti | Philosophy and complexity |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784062303321 |
| New Jersey, : World Scientific, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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