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Chaos theory has captured scientific and popular attention. What began as the discovery of randomness in simple physical systems has become a widespread fascination with "chaotic" models of everything from business cycles to brainwaves to heart attacks. But what exactly does this explosion of new research into chaotic phenomena mean for our understanding of the world? In this timely book, Stephen Kellert takes the first sustained look at the broad intellectual and philosophical questions raised by recent advances in chaos theory-its implications for science as a source of knowledge and for the very meaning of that knowledge itself. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Of particular note in the first half of the book is the discussion of determinism, and whether and how chaos theory might have consequences for that physico-philosophical problem. In these sections, there is a useful focus on the ways in which scientific methodology and metaphysical suppositions generate and limit one another.
The final section of this book is the most interesting. Entitled "Beyond the Clockwork Hegemony," it might have been called "Off the Prow of Chaos," because its concern is the intellectual and cultural factors that delayed the appreciation of the sort of qualitative understandings now on offer in chaos theory. As Kellert demonstrates, the usual explanation that digital computing was indispensable for the investigation of chaos is insufficient. His conclusion is to suggest a greater interpenetration of the "subjective" factors of culture and the "objective" knowledge of math and the physical sciences.