The Demons of Science : What They Can and Cannot Tell Us About Our World
1st ed. 2016
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
3319317075
ISBN-13
9783319317076
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint
Springer International Publishing AG
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 27th, 2016
Print length
251 Pages
Weight
552 grams
Dimensions
16.50 x 24.20 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy of scienceCosmology & the universeCosmology and the universePhysics
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This book is the first all-encompassing exploration of the role of demons inphilosophical and scientific thought experiments. Part III introduces Maxwell’s Demon, who - by contrast - experiences a world that is probabilistic and indeterministic. The book investigates what these Demons - and others - can and cannot tell us about our world.
This book is the first all-encompassing exploration of the role of demons inphilosophical and scientific thought experiments. In Part I, the author explains the importance of thought experiments in science andphilosophy. Part II considers Laplace’s Demon, whose claim is that the world iscompletely deterministic. Part III introduces Maxwell’s Demon, who - by contrast - experiences a world that is probabilistic and indeterministic. Part IV explores Nietzsche’s thesis of the cyclic and eternal recurrence of events. In each casea number of philosophical consequences regarding determinism and indeterminism, the arrows of time, the nature of the mind andfree will are said to follow from the Demons’s worldviews. The book investigates what these Demons - and others - can and cannot tell us about our world.
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