Complexity : a philosophical overview /: a philosophical overview. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nicholas Rescher.
• Authors: Rescher, Nicholas
• Contents: 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 o f 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. Extra-terrestrial 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
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (220 pages)
• Subjects: 501; PHILOSOPHY / General; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern; Science -- Philosophy; Complexity (Philosophy); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429336591; 0429336594; 9781000667332; 1000667332; 9781000675191; 9781000659474
• Related ISBNs: 100067519X; 100065947X; 9781560003779; 9781138508378
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed March 4, 2020).
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