06261nam a2200709 i 4500 9780750363679 IOP 20251030124836.0 m eo d cr cn |||m|||a 240801s2024 enka fob 000 0 eng d 9780750363679 ebook 9780750363662 mobi 9780750363631 print 9780750363648 myPrint 10.1088/978-0-7503-6367-9 doi (CaBNVSL)thg00083967 (OCoLC)1451140015 CaBNVSL eng rda CaBNVSL CaBNVSL Q175.32.E44 B577 2024eb PHP bicssc SCI051000 bisacsh Bishop, Robert C., 1961- author. 97251 The physics of emergence / Robert C. Bishop. Second edition. Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2024] 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color). text rdacontent electronic isbdmedia online resource rdacarrier [IOP release $release] IOP ebooks. [2024 collection] "Version: 20240701"--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. Universality and independence -- 1.7. Wheeler and the foundations of physics -- 1.8. Reductive methods versus reductionism 2. Some physics objections to emergence -- 2.1. Physics is fundamentally causally closed -- 2.2. Fundamental principles/laws govern everything -- 2.3. Emergent laws and properties are just coarse-grained averages of fundamental laws and properties -- 2.4. Symmetry is reduction -- 2.5. Coherence of physics and the sciences -- 2.6. Ontological emergence violates fundamental laws -- 2.7. Atomism, context and reductionism -- 2.8. Bare versus dressed states 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 observables 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. The renormalization group and emergence -- 5.1. Renormalization group methods -- 5.2. Renormalization and contextual emergence -- 5.3. Renormalization, universality classes and physical systems -- 5.4. Renormalization, effective field theories and contextual emergence 6. Responding to objections -- 6.1. Physics is fundamentally causally closed -- 6.2. Fundamental principles/laws govern everything -- 6.3. Emergent laws and properties are just coarse-grained averages of fundamental laws and properties -- 6.4. Symmetry is reduction -- 6.5. Coherence of physics and the sciences -- 6.6. Ontological emergence violates fundamental laws -- 6.7. Atomism, context and reductionism -- 6.8. Is it all just boundary conditions? -- 6.9. Everything is in the fundamental domain 7. Broader implications -- 7.1. Redefining fundamentality -- 7.2. Contextual emergence of the macroscopic -- 7.3. Implications for the universal wave function -- 7.4. Laws of nature -- 7.5. Determinism -- 7.6. Contextual emergence beyond physics -- 7.7. Conclusion. Full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers. It is not unusual among particle physicists to find the belief that elementary particles and forces determine everything in physics, chemistry, biology, geology, physiology all the way up to human behaviour. It is not just that physics underlies everything in the universe; it is the belief that everything in the universe reduces to the play of elementary particles under forces. Yet, there are other physicists who argue that this is an oversimplification of the relationship between physics and other domains. This book explores these debates and proposes a physics-motivated conception of emergence that leaves behind many of the problematic intuitions shaping the philosophical conceptions. It would be suitable for physicists, scientists, undergraduate and postgraduate science students interested in reduction and emergence debates. Physicists and scientists, undergraduate and postgraduate science students interested in reduction and emergence debates. Also available in print. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader. Robert C Bishop is Professor of Physics and Philosophy and the John and Madeleine McIntyre Endowed Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at Wheaton College. His research focuses on History and philosophy of physics and the social sciences and free will, with special attention to emergence, determinism, chaos, and complexity. The Physics of Emergence (IOP Publishing, 2019), and Chaos Theory: A Quick Immersion (Tibidabo Publishing, 2023), and co-author of Emergence in Context: A Science-First Approach to Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2022). Title from PDF title page (viewed on August 1, 2024). Emergence (Philosophy) 97252 Physics Philosophy. 70515 Particle & high-energy physics. bicssc 96563 SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear. bisacsh 96432 Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher. 17702 Print version: 9780750363631 9780750363648 IOP (Series). Release 24. IOP ebooks. 2024 collection. https://iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-0-7503-6367-9 E-Books 68553 68553