The physics of emergence / Robert C. Bishop.

By: Bishop, Robert C, 1961- [author.]Contributor(s): Morgan & Claypool Publishers [publisher.] | Institute of Physics (Great Britain) [publisher.]Material type: TextTextSeries: IOP (Series)Release 6 | IOP concise physicsPublisher: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2019]Distributor: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (various pagings)Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781643271569 ebookSubject(s): Emergence (Philosophy) | Physics -- Philosophy | Particle & high-energy physics | SCIENCE / Physics / NuclearAdditional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification: 530.11 LOC classification: Q175.32.E44 B577 2019ebOnline resources: e-book Full-text access Also available in print.
Contents:
1. Brief history of the debate -- 1.1. The modern emergentists -- 1.2. Einstein, Pauli, and Schr�odinger -- 1.3. The return of emergence -- 1.4. Questioning the hierarchy -- 1.5. Weinberg and the response to P.W. Anderson -- 1.6. Universalit
2. Some physics objections to emergence -- 2.1. Physics is fundamentally causally closed -- 2.2. Fundamental principles/laws govern everything -- 2.3. Symmetry is reduction -- 2.4. Coherence of physics and the sciences -- 2.5. Ontological emerge
3. Contextual emergence -- 3.1. A framework of conditions -- 3.2. Stability conditions -- 3.3. Contextual topologies and abstraction -- 3.4. Contextual topologies and contexts -- 3.5. Possibility spaces -- 3.6. Ontic/epistemic states and observa
4. Case studies from physics -- 4.1. Convection as a contextually-emergent state -- 4.2. Temperature as a contextually-emergent property -- 4.3. Molecular structure as a contextually-emergent property -- 4.4. Brief examples
5. Responding to objections -- 5.1. Physics is fundamentally causally closed -- 5.2. Fundamental principles/laws govern everything -- 5.3. Symmetry is reduction -- 5.4. Coherence of physics and the sciences -- 5.5. Ontological emergence violates
6. Broader implications -- 6.1. Redefining fundamentality -- 6.2. Contextual emergence of the macroscopic -- 6.3. Implications for the universal wave function -- 6.4. Laws of nature -- 6.5. Determinism -- 6.6. Contextual emergence beyond physics
Abstract: This book explores whether physics points to a reductive or an emergent structure of the world and proposes a physics-motivated conception of emergence that leaves behind many of the problematic intuitions shaping the philosophical conceptions.
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1. Brief history of the debate -- 1.1. The modern emergentists -- 1.2. Einstein, Pauli, and Schr�odinger -- 1.3. The return of emergence -- 1.4. Questioning the hierarchy -- 1.5. Weinberg and the response to P.W. Anderson -- 1.6. Universalit

2. Some physics objections to emergence -- 2.1. Physics is fundamentally causally closed -- 2.2. Fundamental principles/laws govern everything -- 2.3. Symmetry is reduction -- 2.4. Coherence of physics and the sciences -- 2.5. Ontological emerge

3. Contextual emergence -- 3.1. A framework of conditions -- 3.2. Stability conditions -- 3.3. Contextual topologies and abstraction -- 3.4. Contextual topologies and contexts -- 3.5. Possibility spaces -- 3.6. Ontic/epistemic states and observa

4. Case studies from physics -- 4.1. Convection as a contextually-emergent state -- 4.2. Temperature as a contextually-emergent property -- 4.3. Molecular structure as a contextually-emergent property -- 4.4. Brief examples

5. Responding to objections -- 5.1. Physics is fundamentally causally closed -- 5.2. Fundamental principles/laws govern everything -- 5.3. Symmetry is reduction -- 5.4. Coherence of physics and the sciences -- 5.5. Ontological emergence violates

6. Broader implications -- 6.1. Redefining fundamentality -- 6.2. Contextual emergence of the macroscopic -- 6.3. Implications for the universal wave function -- 6.4. Laws of nature -- 6.5. Determinism -- 6.6. Contextual emergence beyond physics

This book explores whether physics points to a reductive or an emergent structure of the world and proposes a physics-motivated conception of emergence that leaves behind many of the problematic intuitions shaping the philosophical conceptions.

Physics students, researchers, as well as those interested in physics.

Also available in print.

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Robert C. Bishop studied physics at the University of Texas at Austin under John Wheeler, and philosophy under Fred Kronz and Robert Kane. He has held research postdocs in Freiburg and Konstanz, Germany, and taught philosophy of science and phil

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