TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bishop,Robert C.
ED  - Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
ED  - Institute of Physics (Great Britain),
TI  - The physics of emergence
T2  - [IOP release 6]
SN  - 9781643271569
AV  - Q175.32.E44 B577 2019eb
U1  - 530.11 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA)
PB  - Morgan & Claypool Publishers
KW  - Emergence (Philosophy)
KW  - Physics
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Particle & high-energy physics
KW  - bicssc
KW  - SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - "Version: 20190601"--Title page verso; "A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references; 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; Physics students, researchers, as well as those interested in physics; Also available in print
N2  - 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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