Stephen H. Kellert
Author of In the Wake of Chaos: Unpredictable Order in Dynamical Systems
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- 196?
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- male
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- USA
- Education
- Northwestern University (PhD, 1990)
Yale University (BA, Physics and Philosophy) - Occupations
- professor of philosophy
philosopher of science - Organizations
- Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota
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Of particular note in the first half of the book is the discussion of determinism, and whether and how chaos theory might have consequences for that physico-philosophical problem. In these sections, there is a useful focus on the ways in which scientific methodology and metaphysical suppositions generate and limit one another.
The final section of this book is the most interesting. Entitled "Beyond the Clockwork Hegemony," it might have been called "Off the Prow of Chaos," because its concern is the intellectual and cultural factors that delayed the appreciation of the sort of qualitative understandings now on offer in chaos theory. As Kellert demonstrates, the usual explanation that digital computing was indispensable for the investigation of chaos is insufficient. His conclusion is to suggest a greater interpenetration of the "subjective" factors of culture and the "objective" knowledge of math and the physical sciences.… (more)