Determinism, Holism, and Complexity
ISBN-13:
9781441933942
ISBN-10:
1441933948
Edition:
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Author:
Paolo Freguglia, Claudio Pellegrini, Paola Cerrai, Vieri Benci, Giorgio Israel
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
Springer
Format:
Paperback
420 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781441933942
ISBN-10:
1441933948
Edition:
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Author:
Paolo Freguglia, Claudio Pellegrini, Paola Cerrai, Vieri Benci, Giorgio Israel
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
Springer
Format:
Paperback
420 pages
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Determinism, Holism, and Complexity (ISBN-13: 9781441933942 and ISBN-10: 1441933948), written by authors
Paolo Freguglia, Claudio Pellegrini, Paola Cerrai, Vieri Benci, Giorgio Israel, was published by Springer in 2010.
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Determinism, holism and complexity: three epistemological attitudes that have easily identifiable historical origins and developments. Galileo believed that it was necessary to "prune the impediments" to extract the mathematical essence of physical phenomena, to identify the math ematical structures representing the underlying laws. This Galilean method was the key element in the development of Physics, with its extraordinary successes. Nevertheless the method was later criticized because it led to a view of nature as essentially "simple and orderly", and thus by choosing not to investigate several charac teristics considered as an "impediment", several essential aspects of the phenomenon under investigation might be left out. The Galilean point of view also contains an acknowledgement of the central role played by the causal nexus among phenomena. The mechanistic-deterministic de scription of reality - for instance, a la Laplace - although acknowledging that it is not possible to predict phenomena exactly owing to unavoid able measurement error, is based on the recognition of the their causal nature, even in an ontological sense. Consequently, deterministic predic tion became the methodological fulcrum of mathematical physics. But although mechanistic determinism has had and, in many cases, still has, considerable success in Physics, in other branches of science this situa tion is much less favourable.
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