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Chaos theory has captured scientific and popular attention. What began as the discovery of randomness in simple physical systems has become a widespread fascination with chaotic models of everything from business cycles to brainwaves to heart attacks. But what exactly does this explosion of new research into chaotic phenomena mean for our understanding of the world? In this timely book, Stephen Kellert takes the first sustained look at the broad intellectual and philosophical questions raised by recent advances in chaos theory--its implications for science as a source of knowledge and for the very meaning of that knowledge itself.

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Acknowledgments Prologue 1: What Is Chaos Theory? 2: Varieties of the Impossible 3: Unpeeling the Layers of Determinism 4: On the Way to Dynamic Understanding 5: Beyond the Clockwork Hegemony References Index

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 01/06/1993
    ISBN13: 9780226429748, 978-0226429748
    ISBN10: 0226429741
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    Cybernetics and systems theory

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Chaos theory has captured scientific and popular attention. What began as the discovery of randomness in simple physical systems has become a widespread fascination with chaotic models of everything from business cycles to brainwaves to heart attacks. But what exactly does this explosion of new research into chaotic phenomena mean for our understanding of the world? In this timely book, Stephen Kellert takes the first sustained look at the broad intellectual and philosophical questions raised by recent advances in chaos theory--its implications for science as a source of knowledge and for the very meaning of that knowledge itself.

    Table of Contents
    Acknowledgments Prologue 1: What Is Chaos Theory? 2: Varieties of the Impossible 3: Unpeeling the Layers of Determinism 4: On the Way to Dynamic Understanding 5: Beyond the Clockwork Hegemony References Index

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