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Title The causal universe / edited by George F.R. Ellis, Michael Heller, Tadeusz Pabjan
Published Kraków : Copernicus Center Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations
Contents Why are the laws of nature as they are? what underlies their existence? / George F.R. Ellis -- Top-down causation as the key to the emergence of complexity / George F.R. Ellis -- Models of the cosmos and the emergence of complexity / Jean-Philippe Uzan -- Causality and complexity / Derek Raine -- The uncertain future and the ambiguous past in classical, quantum and general non-signaling settings / Marek Kuś -- Reductionist doubts / Julian Barbour -- X-ray background and cosmology / Andrzej M. Sołtan -- Causality and noncommutativity / Andrzej Sitarz -- Bottom-up causality in a new setting / Michael Heller -- Varying physical constant cosmologies and the anthropic principle / Mariusz P. Dąbrowski -- Causality issues in ancient Greek philosophy / Bogdan Dembiński -- Cosmology, evolution, causality and creation : the limits, compatibility and cooperation of scientific and philosophical methodologies / William R. Stoeger -- God and the causal structures of nature : some puzzles / Thomas Tracy -- God as ground? : cosmology and non-causal conceptions of the divine / Willem B. Drees
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Causality (Physics)
Cosmology.
cosmology.
SCIENCE -- Energy.
SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
Causality (Physics)
Cosmology
Form Electronic book
Author Ellis, George F. R. (George Francis Rayner), editor.
Heller, Michael, 1949- editor.
Pabjan, Tadeusz, editor
ISBN 9788378860532
8378860531