Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and acclaimed philosopher Isabelle Stengers offer an exciting and accessible account of the philosophical implications of thermodynamics. Prigogine and Stengers bring contradictory philosophies of time and chance into a novel...
Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and acclaimed philosopher Isabelle Stengers offer an exciting and accessible account of the philosophical implications of thermodynamics. Prigogine and Stengers bring contradictory philosophies of time and chance into a novel and ambitious synthesis. Since its first publication in France in 1978, this book has sparked debate among physicists, philosophers, literary critics and historians.
Isabelle Stengers is a professor of philosophy at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Trained as a chemist and philosopher, her publications include Cosmopolitics, a comprehensive reconsideration of the entire history of modern science from Galileo to contemporary complexity theory. She received the grand prize for philosophy from the Academie Francaise in 1993.
Isabelle Stengers is a professor of philosophy at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Trained as a chemist and philosopher, her publications include Cosmopolitics, a comprehensive reconsideration of the entire history of modern science from Galileo to contemporary complexity theory. She received the grand prize for philosophy from the Academie Francaise in 1993.
Viscount Ilya Romanovich Prigogine was a Belgian physical chemist noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems and irreversibility. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1977.
2 有用 南京西路 2019-07-22 23:54:42
讲耗散结构的好书
0 有用 成章 2019-01-30 17:35:42
会讲故事的人
0 有用 景煜 2020-10-17 21:19:09
Wait to be rediscovered
0 有用 Yuchen 2024-11-28 23:45:08 美国
不确定性和复杂性
0 有用 Kiki_Camarena_ 2024-10-07 21:35:22 荷兰
近期重新閱讀, 確認是我一段時間之內影響最大的輔助書籍。自組織臨界性和混沌, 有時候的對比令之有效轉向了其偏離平衡態時的外部交換-結構性秩序湧現—耗散結構的母題; 當Stuart Kauffman在自組織臨界點內書寫統計模型時Prigogine已轉向於此, 這樣看來確實有種不言自明的宏觀優異性