Process Ecology: Philosophy Passes into Praxis

Mechanical reductionism, which deals entirely with homogeneous variables, will constrain and enable the activities of richly heterogeneous living systems, but it cannot determine their outcomes. Such indeterminism owes to problems with dimensionality, dynamical logic, intractability, and insufficien...

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Main Author: Ulanowicz, Robert E. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: University of Illinois Press 2016
In: Process studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 45, Issue: 2, Pages: 199-222
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