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2. Predictability, Determinism, and Emergence

From the book Theoria

  • Jürgen Mittelstraß
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110596687-002
© 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston
From the book
Theoria
Theoria

Chapters in this book (26)

Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
I. Concepts
1. Complexity, Reductionism, and Holism
2. Predictability, Determinism, and Emergence
3. Discovery
4. Time
5. Limits of Science?
6. Transdisciplinarity
7. Pragmatic Dualism in the Philosophy of Mind
II. Nature and History of Science
8. From Plato’s World to Einstein’s World
9. Causality in Greek Thought
10. Scientific Truth, Copernicus, and the Case of an Unwelcome Preface
11. Newton’s Concept of Hypothesis and the Origin of Empiricism in Physics
12. Philosophical Foundations of Science in the 20th Century
13. The Scientific Mind. Does Science Make Its Own History?
III. Ethical and Institutional Matters
14. The Moral Substance of Science
15. Science and Culture
16. Naturalness and Directing Human Evolution
17. Through a Glass Darkly. On the Enigmatic Nature of Science
18. Quality Assessment in Higher Education Institutions – from the Perspective of Those Assessed
19. The Joy and Woe of Scientific Policy Advice
20. Science – the Last Adventure
Acknowledgements
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
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