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050 4 _aQ175.32.E44
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100 1 _aBishop, Robert C.,
_d1961-
_eauthor.
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245 1 4 _aThe physics of emergence /
_cRobert C. Bishop.
250 _aSecond edition.
264 1 _aBristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) :
_bIOP Publishing,
_c[2024]
300 _a1 online resource (various pagings) :
_billustrations (some color).
336 _atext
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337 _aelectronic
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _a[IOP release $release]
490 1 _aIOP ebooks. [2024 collection]
500 _a"Version: 20240701"--Title page verso.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 _a1. 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
505 8 _a2. 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
505 8 _a3. 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
505 8 _a4. 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
505 8 _a5. 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
505 8 _a6. 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
505 8 _a7. 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.
506 _aFull-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers.
520 3 _aIt 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.
521 _aPhysicists and scientists, undergraduate and postgraduate science students interested in reduction and emergence debates.
530 _aAlso available in print.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
538 _aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.
545 _aRobert 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).
588 _aTitle from PDF title page (viewed on August 1, 2024).
650 _aEmergence (Philosophy)
_997252
650 _aPhysics
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650 7 _aParticle & high-energy physics.
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710 2 _aInstitute of Physics (Great Britain),
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776 8 _iPrint version:
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830 0 _aIOP (Series).
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830 _aIOP ebooks.
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856 4 _uhttps://iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-0-7503-6367-9
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