The thwarting of Laplace's demon : arguments against the mechanistic world-view /
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| Author / Creator: | Green, Richard, Ph. D. |
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| Imprint: | New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995. |
| Description: | xii, 229 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1752309 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Challenge of Laplace's Demon
- 2. The Continuing Failure to Explain Life Mechanistically
- 3. Reasons for Thinking that Life is Non-Laplacean
- 4. The Logic of Life
- 5. The Behaviour of Lower Organisms
- 6. The Infinite Resourcefulness of Human Intelligence
- 7. The Logic of Learning
- 8. The Mind
- 9. Indeterministic Causality
- 10. Vitalism Reappraised
- 11. The Non-Laplacean Underpinnings of Embryogenesis
- 12. Non-Laplacean Evolution
- Appendix: On Brains and Codes.
