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The Demons of Science

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Thought Experiments in Ancient Greece
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    Chapter 3 What Thought Experiments Represent
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    Chapter 4 Models and Thought Experiments
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    Chapter 5 The Function of Thought Experiments
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    Chapter 6 What Thought Experiments Tell Us and Don’t Tell Us About the World
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    Chapter 7 Enter the Demons
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    Chapter 8 Laplace’s Demon: Causal and Predictive Determinism
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    Chapter 9 Causality, Determinism and the Block Universe
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    Chapter 10 The Time-Reversal Invariance of Fundamental Laws
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    Chapter 11 Determinism and Its Implications
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    Chapter 12 Determinism and Free Will
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    Chapter 13 What Laplace’s Demon Tells Us and Does not Tell Us About the World
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    Chapter 14 Local and Cosmic Arrows of Time
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    Chapter 15 Maxwell’s Demon
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    Chapter 16 Loschmidt’s Demon: Reversibility and Irreversibility
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    Chapter 17 Indeterminism
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    Chapter 18 Entropy and Evolution entropy and evolution
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    Chapter 19 The Past-Future Asymmetry
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    Chapter 20 What Maxwell’s Demon Tells Us and Does not Tell Us About the World
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    Chapter 21 The Eternal Recurrence of Events
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    Chapter 22 Landsberg’s Demon
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    Chapter 23 Physical and Phenomenal Time
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    Chapter 24 The Evolution of the Universe
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    Chapter 25 Time and Change
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    Chapter 26 Is There a Master Arrow of Time?
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    Chapter 27 What Landsberg’s Demon Tells Us and Does not Tell Us About the Arrows of Time
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    Chapter 28 Conclusion
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Title
The Demons of Science
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2016
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31708-3
ISBNs
978-3-31-931707-6, 978-3-31-931708-3
Authors

Weinert, Friedel, Friedel Weinert

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Unknown 12 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 25%
Student > Bachelor 1 8%
Unknown 8 67%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 1 8%
Environmental Science 1 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 8%
Social Sciences 1 8%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 7 58%