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City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world-from highway interchanges and retention ponds to zoning documents and conference rooms-yet most seem to have a poor understanding of the materiality of the world in which they're immersed. Too often planners treat built forms, weather patterns, plants, animals, or regulatory technologies as passively awaiting commands rather than actively involved in the workings of cities and regions. In the ambitious and provocative Planning Matter, Robert A. Beauregard sets out to offer a new materialist perspective on planning practice that reveals the many ways in which the nonhuman things of the world mediate what planners say and do. Drawing on actor-network theory and science and technology studies, Beauregard lays out a framework that acknowledges the inevitable insufficiency of our representations of reality while also engaging more holistically with the world in all of its diversity-including human and nonhuman actors alike.

City planning. --- City planning --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Government policy --- Management --- architectural criticism, social philosophy, urban planning, land use, city planners, highway interchanges, retention ponds, zoning documents, conference rooms, materiality, weather patterns, plants and animals, regulatory technologies, new materialist perspective, nonhuman things, actor-network theory, science, technology studies, human world, perception, sociology, civic duty, thought experiment, preservation.

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Modern technology has eliminated barriers posed by geographic distances between people around the globe, making the world more interdependent. However, in spite of global collaboration within research domains, fragmentation among research fields persists and even escalates. Disintegrated knowledge has become subservient to the competition in the technological and economic race, leading in the direction chosen not by reason and intellect but rather by the preferences of politics and markets. To restore the authority of knowledge in guiding humanity, we have to reconnect its scattered isolated parts and offer an evolving and diverse but shared vision of objective reality connecting the sciences and other knowledge domains and informed by and in communication with ethical and esthetic thinking and being. This collection of articles responds to the second call from the journal Philosophies to build a new, networked world of knowledge with domain specialists from different disciplines interacting and connecting with the rest of the knowledge-producing and knowledge-consuming communities in an inclusive, extended natural-philosophic, human-centric manner. In this process of reconnection, scientific and philosophical investigations enrich each other, with sciences informing philosophies about the best current knowledge of the world, both natural and human-made, while philosophies scrutinize the ontological, epistemological, and methodological foundations of sciences.

Philosophy --- Number world --- spurious law --- emergent law --- dialectics --- epistemon --- information --- logic in reality --- natural philosophy --- ontolon --- semiotics --- ontology --- BFO --- tropes --- applied philosophy --- thought-experiment --- libero arbitrio --- freedom of will --- knowledge synthesis --- epistemology --- breakthrough knowledge --- domain-specific knowledge --- web-based search --- grounded theory --- Bradford Hill criteria --- association --- causation --- mediation --- naturalistic epistemology --- knowledge how --- knowledge that --- anti-intellectualism --- intellectualism --- practical grasp --- cognitive science --- physical information --- abstract information --- physical phenomena --- abstract entities --- learning --- learning to learn --- deep learning --- information processing --- natural computing --- morphological computing --- info-computation --- connectionism --- symbolism --- cognition --- robotics --- artificial intelligence --- contemporary natural philosophy --- idola mentis --- scientific methodology --- quantitative and qualitative methods --- structural analysis --- abstraction --- complexity --- knowledge --- naturalism --- slips --- basic activities --- philosophy of nature --- unity of knowledge

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SCIENCE / Astronomy. --- Age of the universe. --- Astronomer. --- Astronomical object. --- Astronomy. --- Astrophysics. --- Atomic nucleus. --- Background radiation. --- Beatrice Tinsley. --- Big Bang. --- Calculation. --- Cepheid variable. --- Chemical element. --- Chronology of the universe. --- Cosmic background radiation. --- Cosmic distance ladder. --- Cosmic microwave background. --- Cosmic ray. --- Cosmological constant. --- Dark energy. --- Deceleration parameter. --- Density. --- Edwin Hubble. --- Einstein field equations. --- Fritz Zwicky. --- Galaxy cluster. --- General relativity. --- George Gamow. --- Gravitational field. --- Gravitational lens. --- Gravity. --- Hubble Space Telescope. --- Hubble's law. --- Jim Peebles. --- Lambda-CDM model. --- Measurement. --- Metric expansion of space. --- Milky Way. --- Nebula. --- Neutron star. --- Newton's law of universal gravitation. --- Observable universe. --- Observational cosmology. --- Observatory. --- Paul Steinhardt. --- Photon. --- Physical cosmology. --- Physical law. --- Physicist. --- Prediction. --- Quantity. --- Quantum gravity. --- Quantum mechanics. --- Radio astronomy. --- Radio telescope. --- Science. --- Scientist. --- Shape of the universe. --- Solar mass. --- Special relativity. --- Spiral galaxy. --- Steady State theory. --- String theory. --- Supernova. --- Theoretical physics. --- Theory of relativity. --- Thought experiment. --- Ultimate fate of the universe. --- Universe. --- Vesto Slipher. --- Zwicky (crater). --- Age of the universe. --- Astronomer. --- Astronomical object. --- Astronomy. --- Astrophysics. --- Atomic nucleus. --- Background radiation. --- Beatrice Tinsley. --- Big Bang. --- Calculation. --- Cepheid variable. --- Chemical element. --- Chronology of the universe. --- Cosmic background radiation. --- Cosmic distance ladder. --- Cosmic microwave background. --- Cosmic ray. --- Cosmological constant. --- Dark energy. --- Deceleration parameter. --- Density. --- Edwin Hubble. --- Einstein field equations. --- Fritz Zwicky. --- Galaxy cluster. --- General relativity. --- George Gamow. --- Gravitational field. --- Gravitational lens. --- Gravity. --- Hubble Space Telescope. --- Hubble's law. --- Jim Peebles. --- Lambda-CDM model. --- Measurement. --- Metric expansion of space. --- Milky Way. --- Nebula. --- Neutron star. --- Newton's law of universal gravitation. --- Observable universe. --- Observational cosmology. --- Observatory. --- Paul Steinhardt. --- Photon. --- Physical cosmology. --- Physical law. --- Physicist. --- Prediction. --- Quantity. --- Quantum gravity. --- Quantum mechanics. --- Radio astronomy. --- Radio telescope. --- Science. --- Scientist. --- Shape of the universe. --- Solar mass. --- Special relativity. --- Spiral galaxy. --- Steady State theory. --- String theory. --- Supernova. --- Theoretical physics. --- Theory of relativity. --- Thought experiment. --- Ultimate fate of the universe. --- Universe. --- Vesto Slipher. --- Zwicky (crater).

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"Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can’t agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economists believe. The debate is one of the biggest in economics, and the value or futility of investment management and financial regulation hangs on the answer. In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Lo transforms the debate with a powerful new framework in which rationality and irrationality coexist—the Adaptive Markets Hypothesis. Drawing on psychology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and other fields, Adaptive Markets shows that the theory of market efficiency is incomplete. When markets are unstable, investors react instinctively, creating inefficiencies for others to exploit. Lo’s new paradigm explains how financial evolution shapes behavior and markets at the speed of thought—a fact revealed by swings between stability and crisis, profit and loss, and innovation and regulation. An ambitious new answer to fundamental questions about economics and investing, Adaptive Markets is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how markets really work." -- Publisher's description.

Investments --- Stock exchanges. --- Efficient market theory. --- Psychological aspects. --- Market theory, Efficient --- Capital market --- Stock exchanges --- Bulls and bears --- Commercial corners --- Corners, Commercial --- Equity markets --- Exchanges, Securities --- Exchanges, Stock --- Securities exchanges --- Stock-exchange --- Stock markets --- Efficient market theory --- Speculation --- Adaptive market hypothesis. --- Arbitrage. --- Asset. --- Bank run. --- Bank. --- Behavior. --- Behavioral economics. --- Biology. --- Broker-dealer. --- Calculation. --- Career. --- Central bank. --- Competition. --- Cryptocurrency. --- Currency. --- Customer. --- Debt. --- Decision-making. --- Economics. --- Economist. --- Ecosystem. --- Efficient-market hypothesis. --- Employment. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Equity Market. --- Evolution. --- Finance. --- Financial crisis of 2007–08. --- Financial crisis. --- Financial economics. --- Financial innovation. --- Financial institution. --- Financial services. --- Financial technology. --- Forecasting. --- Fraud. --- Funding. --- Hedge Fund Manager. --- Hedge fund. --- Heuristic. --- Homo economicus. --- Human behavior. --- Incentive. --- Income. --- Insider. --- Insurance. --- Interest rate. --- Investment strategy. --- Investment. --- Investor. --- Leverage (finance). --- Macroeconomics. --- Margin (finance). --- Market (economics). --- Market Dynamics. --- Market liquidity. --- Market maker. --- Market price. --- Market trend. --- Myron Scholes. --- Narrative. --- Paul Samuelson. --- Ponzi scheme. --- Portfolio manager. --- Prediction. --- Prefrontal cortex. --- Probability matching. --- Probability. --- Psychology. --- Random walk hypothesis. --- Rational expectations. --- Rationality. --- Result. --- Risk aversion. --- Risk management. --- S&P 500 Index. --- Salary. --- Saving. --- Scientist. --- Share price. --- Sociobiology. --- Speculation. --- Stock market crash. --- Stock market. --- Supply (economics). --- Systemic risk. --- Technology. --- The Wisdom of Crowds. --- Theory. --- Thought experiment. --- Thought. --- Time series. --- Trade-off. --- Trader (finance). --- Trading strategy. --- Uncertainty. --- Venture capital. --- Warren Buffett. --- Wealth. --- Year.

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About 120 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell introduced his now legendary hypothetical "demon" as a challenge to the integrity of the second law of thermodynamics. Fascination with the demon persisted throughout the development of statistical and quantum physics, information theory, and computer science--and linkages have been established between Maxwell's demon and each of these disciplines. The demon's seductive quality makes it appealing to physical scientists, engineers, computer scientists, biologists, psychologists, and historians and philosophers of science. Until now its important source material has been scattered throughout diverse journals.This book brings under one cover twenty-five reprints, including seminal works by Maxwell and William Thomson; historical reviews by Martin Klein, Edward Daub, and Peter Heimann; information theoretic contributions by Leo Szilard, Leon Brillouin, Dennis Gabor, and Jerome Rothstein; and innovations by Rolf Landauer and Charles Bennett illustrating linkages with the limits of computation. An introductory chapter summarizes the demon's life, from Maxwell's illustration of the second law's statistical nature to the most recent "exorcism" of the demon based on a need periodically to erase its memory. An annotated chronological bibliography is included.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Thermodynamics. --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Dynamics --- Mechanics --- Physics --- Heat --- Heat-engines --- Quantum theory --- Maxwell's demon. --- Adiabatic process. --- Automaton. --- Available energy (particle collision). --- Billiard-ball computer. --- Black hole information paradox. --- Black hole thermodynamics. --- Black-body radiation. --- Boltzmann's entropy formula. --- Boyle's law. --- Calculation. --- Carnot's theorem (thermodynamics). --- Catalysis. --- Chaos theory. --- Computation. --- Copying. --- Creation and annihilation operators. --- Digital physics. --- Dissipation. --- Distribution law. --- Domain wall. --- EPR paradox. --- Energy level. --- Entropy of mixing. --- Entropy. --- Exchange interaction. --- Expectation value (quantum mechanics). --- Extrapolation. --- Fair coin. --- Fermi–Dirac statistics. --- Gibbs free energy. --- Gibbs paradox. --- Guessing. --- Halting problem. --- Hamiltonian mechanics. --- Heat engine. --- Heat. --- Helmholtz free energy. --- Ideal gas. --- Idealization. --- Information theory. --- Instant. --- Internal energy. --- Irreversible process. --- James Prescott Joule. --- Johnson–Nyquist noise. --- Kinetic theory of gases. --- Laws of thermodynamics. --- Least squares. --- Loschmidt's paradox. --- Ludwig Boltzmann. --- Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution. --- Mean free path. --- Measurement. --- Mechanical equivalent of heat. --- Microscopic reversibility. --- Molecule. --- Negative temperature. --- Negentropy. --- Newton's law of universal gravitation. --- Nitrous oxide. --- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics. --- Old quantum theory. --- Particle in a box. --- Perpetual motion. --- Photon. --- Probability. --- Quantity. --- Quantum limit. --- Quantum mechanics. --- Rectangular potential barrier. --- Result. --- Reversible computing. --- Reversible process (thermodynamics). --- Richard Feynman. --- Rolf Landauer. --- Rudolf Clausius. --- Scattering. --- Schrödinger equation. --- Second law of thermodynamics. --- Self-information. --- Spontaneous process. --- Standard state. --- Statistical mechanics. --- Superselection. --- Temperature. --- Theory of heat. --- Theory. --- Thermally isolated system. --- Thermodynamic equilibrium. --- Thermodynamic system. --- Thought experiment. --- Turing machine. --- Ultimate fate of the universe. --- Uncertainty principle. --- Unitarity (physics). --- Van der Waals force. --- Wave function collapse. --- Work output.