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- Title
Essay Review: Complexity Features, (Putative) Truisms, and the Ising Model: James Ladyman & Karoline Wiesner: What Is a Complex System? Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2020, 184 pp., $35.00 (Paperback), ISBN: 9780300251104.
- Authors
Henschen, Tobias
- Abstract
Essay Review: Complexity Features, (Putative) Truisms, and the Ising Model: James Ladyman & Karoline Wiesner: What Is a Complex System? One final gap relates to the somewhat enigmatic statement that nonlinearity is "not sufficient for a complex system (on any but the most all-encompassing conception)" (p. 78). I do not believe, however, that statement (9) that there is "a difference between the order that complex systems produce and the order of complex systems themselves" comes close to a truism. They state that "[i]n the popular and philosophical literature on complex systems a lot of heat and little light is often generated by talk of linearity and nonlinearity" (p. 77).
- Subjects
NEW Haven (Conn.); ISING model; YALE University Press; WORLD Wide Web
- Publication
Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 2021, Vol 52, Issue 3, p475
- ISSN
0925-4560
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.1007/s10838-021-09554-6