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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.
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INDEX
Note: Page numbers given in boldface indicate location of definitions or discussions of terms or concepts indexed here.
Acceleration, 57–59
Affinity, 29, 136
Against the Current (Berlin), 2
Agassiz, Louis, 195
Alchemy, 64; affinity in, 136; Chinese, 278
Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’, 52; Diderot and, 80–82; opposition to Newtonian science of, 62, 63, 65, 66
Ambidextrous Universe, The (Gardner), 234
Amoebas, 156–60
Ampère, André Marie, 67, 76
Anaxagoras, 264
Antireductionists, 173–74
Archimedes, 39, 41, 304
Aristotle, 39, 40, 71, 85, 173, 305, 306; on change, 62; notion of space of, 171; physics of, 39–41; and theology, 49–50
Arrow of time, xx, xxvii, 8, 16; Boltzmann on, 253–55; and elementary particles, 288; and entropy, 119, 257–59; and heat engines, 111–15; Layzer on, xxv; meaning of, 289; and probability, 238–39; roles played by, 301
Atomists, 3, 36; conception of change of, 62, 63; on turbulence, 141
Attractor, 121, 133, 140, 152
Bach, J. S., 307
Bachelard, Gaston, 320n
Bacterial chemotaxis, 175
Baker transformation, 269, 272–76, 278–79, 283, 289
Being and Becoming, 310
Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, 151–53, 168
Bénard instability, 142–44; transition to chaos in, 167–68
Bergson, Henri, 10, 79, 80, 90–94, 96, 129, 173–74, 301–2; on dynamics, 60; on time, 214, 294
Berlin, Isaiah, 2, 11, 13, 80
Bernoulli, Daniel, 82
Berry, B., 17
Berthollet, Claude Louis, Comte, 319n
Besso, Michele, 294
Bifurcations, xv, 160–61, 176, 275; cascading, 167–70; in evolution, 171–72; fluctuations and, 177, 180; in reaction-diffusion systems, 260; role of chance in, xxvi, 170, 176; social, 313; and statistical model, 205–6; theory of, 14
Big Bang, xxvii, 288; and arrow of time, xxv, 259
Biology, 2, 10; catalysts in, 133–34; chemical reactions in, 131–32; “communication” among molecules in, 13; concepts from physics applied to, 207; and conversion, 108; evolution and, 12, 128; logistic equation in, 193–96...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Foreword: Science and Change
- Preface: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature
- Introduction: The Challenge to Science
- Book One: The Delusion of the Universal
- Book Two: The Science of Complexity
- Book Three: From Being to Becoming
- Notes
- Index