The Thwarting of Laplace's Demon / Arguments Against the Mechanistic World-View
Language: English
Published by Macmillan Press LTD / Scholarly and Reference Division, St. Martin's Press, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, and London / New York, 1995
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- Hardcover
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Author was associate professor, Department of Philosophy, Monash University, Australia. States "First published in Great Britain 1995 by Macmillan Press LTD" AND "First published in the United States of America 1995 by Scholarly and Reference Division, St. Martin's Press, Inc.," number line complete 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 -- the first printing. As this copy was printed in the U.K. (well, it appears they all were, actually), and as it came to us from the U.K. (South Wales), we list what would appear to be the U.K. ISBN (0-333-62766-0), rather than the U.S. ISBN (also printed to both copyright page and jacket rear panel), which would be 0-312-12472-4. In the history of science, Laplace's demon was the first articulation of causal or scientific determinism, published by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1814. Such determinism holds that if someone (the Demon) knows the precise location and momentum of every atom in the universe, their past and future values for any given time can be calculated from the laws of classical mechanics. A desire to confirm or refute Laplace's Demon played a motivating role in the subsequent development of statistical thermodynamics, the first of several repudiations developed by later generations of physicists to the assumption of causal determinacy. This book placed 19th on BookFinder-dot-com's list of the top 100 most searched-for out-of-print books for the year 2014, below Madonna's "Sex," Jack Howell's "The Lovely Reed: An Enthusiast's Guide to Building Bamboo Fly Rods," Cameron Crowe's "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," Charles Clawson's "Collector's Guide to Colt .45 Service Pistols," and several books by Stephen King. 229 pp. including index. Here reduced from $1,800.…
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- Title
- The Thwarting of Laplace's Demon / Arguments Against the Mechanistic World-View
- Author
- Green, Richard
- Publisher
- Macmillan Press LTD / Scholarly and Reference Division, St. Martin's Press, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, and London / New York
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0333627660
- ISBN 13
- 9780333627662
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- History of Science, Physics, Rare Books
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