Complexity: a philosophical overview
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New Brunswick [u.a.]
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1998
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 219 S. |
| ISBN: | 1560003774 9781560003779 |
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Preface xi
Introduction xiii
1. The Ways of Complexity 1
1. What Complexity Involves 1
2. Modes of Complexity 8
3. The Cognitive Aspect 16
2. The Complexity of the Real 25
1. The Descriptive Inexhaustibility of Things: The Law
of Natural Complexity 26
2. Descriptive Incompleteness 31
3. The Dynamic Aspect of Descriptive Inexhaustibility:
The Instability of Knowledge 33
4. The Cognitive Opacity of the Real 36
5. Nomic, or Operational Complexity 41
6. The Imperfectibility of Knowledge in a Complex World 45
3. Cognitive Progress in a Complex World:
Destabilization and Complexification 55
1. Spencer’s Law: The Dynamics of Cognitive Complexity 55
2. The Principle of Least Effort and the Methodological
Status of Simplicity-Preference in Science 58
3. Complexification and the Disintegration of Science 64
4. Complexity and the Human Sciences 71
viii Complexity
4. Complex Knowledge: The Growth of Science and the
Law of Logarithmic Returns 75
1. The Expansion of Science 75
2. The Law of Logarithmic Returns 77
3. The Rationale and Implication of the Law 82
4. The Growth of Knowledge 84
5. The Centrality of Quality and Its Implications 86
5. Technological Escalation and the Exploration Model
of Natural Science 91
1. Accounting for Our Cognitive Competence in Managing
Complexity 91
2. The Exploration Model of Scientific Inquiry 96
3. Technological Escalation: An Arms Race Against Nature 98
6. The Theoretical Unrealizability of Perfected Science 105
1. Conditions for Perfected Science 105
2. Theoretical Adequacy: Issues of Erotetic Completeness 107
3. Pragmatic Completeness 110
4. Predictive Completeness 113
5. Temporal Finality 115
6. The Dispensability of Perfection 117
7. “Perfected Science” as an Idealization that Affords a
Useful Contrast Conception 119
8. Science and Reality 121
7. Extraterrestrial Science 129
1. The Potential Diversity of “Science” 129
2. The One World, One Science Argument 135
3. First Principles 140
4. Potential Plurality of Science 146
8. Are There Any Limits to the Problem-Solving Capacity
of Computers 151
1. Could Computers Overcome Our Limitations? 151
2. Problem Solving by Computers 152
3. Theoretical Limits are not Meaningful Limitations 154
Contents ix
4. Practical Limits: Inadequate Information 155
5. Practical Limits: Limits of Prediction—Real-Time
Processing Problems 157
6. Practical Limits: Limitations of Representation in Matters
of Detail Management 157
7. Inherent Limits of Prediction—Self-Insight Problems 159
8. Practical Limits: Limits of Modeling—Cognitive
Thermodynamics 161
9. The Human Element 162
9. Coping with Cognitive Limitations:
Problems of Rationality in a Complex World 165
1. Stage-Setting for the Problem: Issue Resolution Hinges
on Available Information 165
2. Ideal vs. Practical Rationality: The Predicament of Reason 169
10. Technology, Complexity, and Social Decision 173
1. Technological Progress Makes Life More Complicated 173
2. Problem Complexity Outpaces Solution Complexity 177
3. The Intimidating Impetus of the Unknown:
Risk and Destabilization 181
4. Concretization Quandaries and Decision Gridlock 184
5. A Retrospective Reflection 188
11. Complexity’s Bearing on Philosophical Anthropology 191
1. Dimensions of Finitude 191
2. Ramifications of Complexity: The Paradox of Finitude 193
3. Principles of Complexity 199
4. Philosophizing in a Complex World 202
5. After Postmodernism 205
Bibliography 211
Index of Names 217
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