Without hierarchies: the scale freedom of the universe
Auteur :
Thalos, Mariam
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780199917648
Date de publication :
13 juin 2013
Dimensions :
16,3 x 23,9 x 3,1 cm
Poids :
644 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
This book argues that there is causation at every scale of measurement - countering the philosophical position that causation, or "activity," occurs only at the minutest scales of measurement (the scale of microphysics). Thalos's scale-free model, as she shows, is much more hospitable to the models of physicists than are the single-scale models proposed by both reductionists and emergentists.