Complexity : a philosophical overview / Nicholas Rescher
- Bib ID:
- 2039201
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Rescher, Nicholas
- Description:
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- New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, 1998
- xviii, 219 p. 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1560003774 (alkaline paper)
- Series:
- Science and technology studies.
- Summary:
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"This volume explores the nature of complexity and considers its bearing on our world and how we manage our affairs within it."--BOOK JACKET. "Rescher's overall lesson is that the management of our affairs within a socially, technologically, and cognitively complex environment is plagued with vast management problems and risks of mishap. Although Rescher offers a sobering outlook, he also believes that complexity entails mixed blessings: our imperfect knowledge provides a rationale for putting forth our best efforts. This volume will be of interest to those interested in philosophy, the philosophy of science, science policy studies, and future studies."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Ways of Complexity
- 2. The Complexity of the Real
- 3. Cognitive Progress in a Complex World: Destabilization and Complexification
- 4. Complex Knowledge: The Growth of Science and the Law of Logarithmic Returns
- 5. Technological Escalation and the Exploration Model of Natural Science
- 6. The Theoretical Unrealizability of Perfected Science
- 7. Extraterrestrial Science
- 8. Are There Any Limits to the Problem-Solving Capacity of Computers
- 9. Coping with Cognitive Limitations: Problems of Rationality in a Complex World
- 10. Technology, Complexity, and Social Decision
- 11. Complexity's Bearing on Philosophical Anthropology.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-215) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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