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Without hierarchy : the scale freedom of the universe / Mariam Thalos.
LIBRA Q175.32.C38 T43 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thalos, Mariam, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Causation.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Physics--Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Introduction : towards a theory of science
- Part one : Scale freedom multiply contextualized. Against the philosophy of a one-scale universe
- Resheathing
- Part two : Philosophical foundations of science and metaphysics. Multiple conceptions of fundamentality
- Why causation cannot be the cement of the universe
- Moves and movers : notes on the progress of science
- Making sense of order : the true cement of the universe
- Part three : deployments. The logic of leading and following
- The "microcosm" of unity (of science) that is physics
- Conclusion : toward a more truth-illuminating metaphysics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199917648
- 0199917647
- OCLC:
- 827008044
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