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This book is the first all-encompassing exploration of the role of demons in philosophical and scientific thought experiments. In Part I, the author explains the importance of thought experiments in science and philosophy. Part II considers Laplace’s Demon, whose claim is that the world is completely deterministic. Part III introduces Maxwell’s Demon, who - by contrast - experiences a world that is probabilistic and indeterministic. Part IV explores Nietzsche’s thesis of the cyclic and eternal recurrence of events. In each case a number of philosophical consequences regarding determinism and indeterminism, the arrows of time, the nature of the mind and free will are said to follow from the Demons’s worldviews. The book investigates what these Demons - and others - can and cannot tell us about our world. .

Physics. --- Philosophy and science. --- Cosmology. --- History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Popular Science in Physics. --- Science --- Philosophy. --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Astronomy --- Deism --- Metaphysics --- Science and philosophy --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics

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Copernicus, Nicolaus --- Darwin, Charles --- Freĭd, Zigmund, --- Frūyd, Sijmund, --- Pʼroidi, --- Freud, Sigismund, --- Freud, Sigm., --- Firūyid, Sighmund, --- Frūyd, Sīghmūnd, --- Phroynt, Sinkmount, --- Fo-lo-i-te, --- Freud, Segismundo, --- Furoido, Jīkumunto, --- Faryūḍ, Sigmanḍ, --- K̲aprāyṭ, Cikmaṇṭ, --- K̲aprāyat, Cikmant, --- Pirāyṭ, --- Prāyṭu, --- Фрейд, Зигмунд, --- פרויד, זיגמונד --- פרויד, זיגמונד, --- פרויד, ז., --- פרױד, זיגמונד --- Freud, Sigismund Schlomo, --- Darwin, Charles Robert, --- Daerwen, --- Darvin, Charlʼz, --- Darvin, Tsharlz, --- Darwin, Carlos R., --- Dāwin, --- Darwin, Karol, --- Ṭārvin̲, Cārlas, --- Ṭārvin̲, --- Sdar-win, --- Sdar-win, Char-le-si Ro-sbe-thi, --- Darvin, Čarls, --- דארווין, טשארלז --- דארווין, טשארלז, --- דארווין, צארלס --- דרוין, טשרלס, --- تشارلز داروين, --- داروين، چارلز --- 達爾文, --- Ko-pai-ni, Ni-ku-la, --- Kopernik, Mikołaj, --- Kopernik, Nikolaĭ, --- Kopernikus, Nikolaus, --- Coppernicus, Nicolaus, --- Copérnico, Nicolás, --- Koppernigk, Niklas, --- Copernicus, Nicholas, --- Copernic, Nicolas, --- Copernico, Niccolò, --- קופרניקוס, ניקולאוס, --- קופרניקוס, ניקולי, --- Copernicus, Nicolaus, --- Darwin, Charles, --- Fulouyide, --- 弗洛伊德, --- Darwin, Charles, Robert --- Copernic, Nicolas --- Kopernik, Mikołaj --- Science --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy --- Freud, Sigmund, --- Froid, Zigmund, --- Freud, Sigmund --- Philosophy.

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This book is the first all-encompassing exploration of the role of demons in philosophical and scientific thought experiments. In Part I, the author explains the importance of thought experiments in science and philosophy. Part II considers Laplace’s Demon, whose claim is that the world is completely deterministic. Part III introduces Maxwell’s Demon, who - by contrast - experiences a world that is probabilistic and indeterministic. Part IV explores Nietzsche’s thesis of the cyclic and eternal recurrence of events. In each case a number of philosophical consequences regarding determinism and indeterminism, the arrows of time, the nature of the mind and free will are said to follow from the Demons’s worldviews. The book investigates what these Demons - and others - can and cannot tell us about our world. .

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These essays by leading philosophers and scientists focus on recent ideas at the forefront of modern Darwinism, showcasing and exploring the challenges they raise as well as open problems. This interdisciplinary volume is unique in that it addresses the key notions of evolutionary theory in approaches to the mind, in the philosophy of biology, in the social sciences and humanities; furthermore it considers recent challenges to, and extensions of, Neo-Darwinism. The essays demonstrate that Darwinism is an evolving paradigm, with a sphere of influence far greater than even Darwin is likely to have imagined when he published ‘On the Origin of Species’ in 1859.

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Congresses. --- Evolution (Biology) -- Congresses. --- Natural selection -- Congresses. --- Evolution (Biology) --- Natural selection --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Biology - General --- Evolution --- Philosophy --- Science and the humanities. --- Social Darwinism. --- Philosophy. --- Darwin, Charles, --- Influence. --- Darwinism, Social --- Humanities and science --- Darwin, Charles, Robert --- Evolutionary biology. --- Sociology. --- Biological psychology. --- Philosophy of Biology. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Sociology, general. --- Biological Psychology. --- Competition --- Social change --- Social conflict --- Social evolution --- Humanities --- Biology-Philosophy. --- Evolution (Biology). --- Applied psychology. --- Applied psychology --- Psychagogy --- Psychology, Practical --- Social psychotechnics --- Psychology --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Phylogeny --- Biology—Philosophy. --- Biological psychology --- Biopsychology --- Human behavior --- Biological psychiatry --- Social theory --- Social sciences