The thwarting of Laplace's demon: Arguments against the mechanistic world-view

Richard F. Green

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Philosophy and History of Science Philosophy and Theoretical Science Origins and Evolution of Life

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Acknowledgements - The Argument in Outline - Introduction - PART 1: AN OVERVIEW - The Challenge of Laplace's Demon - The Continuing Failure to Explain Life Mechanistically - Reasons for Thinking that Life is NonLaplacean - PART 2: THE ASCENT OF INTELLIGENCE THROUGH LIFE - The Logic of Life - The Behaviour of Lower Organisms - The Infinite Resourcefulness of Human Intelligence - The Logic of Learning - The Mind - Indeterministic Causality - PART 3: NONLAPLACEAN BIOLOGY - Vitalism Reappraised - The NonLaplacean Underpinnings of Embryogenesis - NonLaplacean Evolution - Appendix: On Brains and Codes - Bibliography - Index

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