The Found and the Made: Science, Reason, and the Reality of Nature

by Dan Bruiger

This book critically examines how mathematical modelling shapes and limits a scientific approach to the natural world and affects how society views nature. It questions concepts such as determinism, reversibility, equilibrium, and the isolated system, and challenges the view of physical reality as passive and inert. Dan Bruiger argues that if nature is real, it must transcend human representations. In particular, it can be expected to self-organize...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412862507
• ISBN13: 9781412862509
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"