A collection of essays dealing with causality, a core issue for both science and philosophy. The Reader will learn about different types of causality in complex systems and about new perspectives on this issue based on physical and cosmological considerations. In addition, the collection includes essays pertaining to the problem of causality in ancient Greek philosophy, and to the problem of God’s relation to the causal structures of nature viewed in the light of contemporary physics and cosmology.
Michael Heller
Introduction
Part I. Top down casuality and complexity
George F.R. Ellis
Why Are the Laws of Nature as They Are? What Underlies Their Existence?
Top-Down Causation as the Key to the Emergence of Complexity
Jean-Philipe Uzan
Models of the Cosmos and the Emergence of Complexity
Derek Raine
Causality and Complexity
Part II
Casuality and the structure of the Universe
Marek Kuś
The uncertain future and the ambiguous past in classical, quantum and general non-signaling settings
Julian Barbour
Reductionist Doubts
Andrzej M. Sołtan
X-ray background and cosmology
Andrzej Sitarz
Causality and Noncommutativity
Michael Heller
Bottom-Up Causality in a New Setting
Mariusz P. Dąbrowski
Varying physical constant cosmologies and the anthropic principles
Part III. Ultimate casuality
Bogdan Dębiński
Causality issues in ancient Greek philosophy
William R. Stoeger
Cosmology, Evolution, Causality and Creation: The Limits, Compatibility and Cooperation of Scientific and Philosophical Methodologies
Thomas Tracy
God and the Causal Structures of Nature: Some Puzzles
Willem B. Drees
God as a Ground? Cosmology and Non-Causal Conceptions of the Divine
ISBN: 978-83-7886-034-1
Format: 170mm x 246mm
Wysyłka w ciągu: 24 godziny
Liczba stron: 328
E-book ISBN: 978-83-7886-053-2
Pod redakcją: George F. R. Ellisa, Michała Hellera i Tadeusza Pabjana