Without hierarchy : the scale freedom of the universe /
This text 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 hospitabl...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This text 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199980345 0199980349 9780199917655 0199917655 |