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  1. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.David Bohm - 1964 - Philosophical Quarterly 14 (57):377-379.
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  • Complexity as thermodynamic depth.Seth Lloyd & H. Pagels - 1988 - Annal of Physics 188:186–213.
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  • Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature.Peter Godfrey-Smith (ed.) - 1996 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    This book explains the relationship between intelligence and environmental complexity, and in so doing links philosophy of mind to more general issues about the relations between organisms and environments, and to the general pattern of 'externalist' explanations. The author provides a biological approach to the investigation of mind and cognition in nature. In particular he explores the idea that the function of cognition is to enable agents to deal with environmental complexity. The history of the idea in the work of (...)
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  • The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex.Murray Gell-Mann - 1995 - Macmillan.
    This book provides an explanation of the connections between nature at its most basic level and natural selection, archaeology, linguistics, child development, computers and other complex adaptive systems.
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  • Self-Modifying Systems In Biology And Cognitive Science: A New Framework For Dynamics, Information.G. Kampis - forthcoming - And Complexity.
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  • A simplification of the theory of simplicity.Samuel A. Richmond - 1996 - Synthese 107 (3):373 - 393.
    Nelson Goodman has constructed two theories of simplicity: one of predicates; one of hypotheses. I offer a simpler theory by generalization and abstraction from his. Generalization comes by dropping special conditions Goodman imposes on which unexcluded extensions count as complicating and which excluded extensions count as simplifying. Abstraction is achieved by counting only nonisomorphic models and subinterpretations. The new theory takes into account all the hypotheses of a theory in assessing its complexity, whether they were projected prior to, or result (...)
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  • Complexity and evolution: What everybody knows.Daniel W. McShea - 1991 - Biology and Philosophy 6 (3):303-324.
    The consensus among evolutionists seems to be that the morphological complexity of organisms increases in evolution, although almost no empirical evidence for such a trend exists. Most studies of complexity have been theoretical, and the few empirical studies have not, with the exception of certain recent ones, been especially rigorous; reviews are presented of both the theoretical and empirical literature. The paucity of evidence raises the question of what sustains the consensus, and a number of suggestions are offered, including the (...)
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  • Independence of two nice sets of axioms for the propositional calculus.T. Thacher Robinson - 1968 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 33 (2):265-270.
    Kanger [4] gives a set of twelve axioms for the classical propositional Calculus which, together with modus ponens and substitution, have the following nice properties: (0.1) Each axiom contains $\supset$ , and no axiom contains more than two different connectives. (0.2) Deletions of certain of the axioms yield the intuitionistic, minimal, and classical refutability1 subsystems of propositional calculus. (0.3) Each of these four systems of axioms has the separation property: that if a theorem is provable in such a system, then (...)
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  • Models in physics.Michael Redhead - 1980 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 31 (2):145-163.
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  • (1 other version)The symbol grounding problem.Stevan Harnad - 1990 - Physica D 42:335-346.
    There has been much discussion recently about the scope and limits of purely symbolic models of the mind and about the proper role of connectionism in cognitive modeling. This paper describes the symbol grounding problem : How can the semantic interpretation of a formal symbol system be made intrinsic to the system, rather than just parasitic on the meanings in our heads? How can the meanings of the meaningless symbol tokens, manipulated solely on the basis of their shapes, be grounded (...)
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  • The Evolutionary Dynamics of Complex Systems.Charles Dyke - 1988 - Oxford University Press.
    The book seeks unities among things often thought to be different from one another; but it also insists on the differences among things often squashed into unities.
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  • The use of simplicity in induction.John G. Kemeny - 1953 - Philosophical Review 62 (3):391-408.
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  • A new approach to semantics – Part I.John G. Kemeny - 1956 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 21:1.
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  • Frontiers of Complexity: The Search for Order in a Chaotic World.Peter Coveney & J. R. L. Highfield - 1995
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  • On the Relations Between Discrete and Continuous Complexity Theory.Klaus Meer - 1995 - Mathematical Logic Quarterly 41 (2):281-286.
    Relations between discrete and continuous complexity models are considered. The present paper is devoted to combine both models. In particular we analyze the 3-Satisfiability problem. The existence of fast decision procedures for this problem over the reals is examined based on certain conditions on the discrete setting. Moreover we study the behaviour of exponential time computations over the reals depending on the real complexity of 3-Satisfiability. This will be done using tools from complexity theory over the integers.
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  • What is complexity? - The philosophy of complexity per se with application to some examples in evolution.Bruce Edmonds - 1995 - In [Book Chapter] (in Press).
    It is argued that complexity has only a limited use as a paradigm against reductionist approaches and that it has a much richer potential as a comparable property. What can complexity be usefully said to be a property of is discussed. It is argued that it is unlikely to have any useful value as applied to real object or systems. Further that even relativising it to an observer has problems. It is proposed that complexity can be only usefully applied to (...)
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  • Complexity and social scientific laws.Lee C. McIntyre - 1993 - Synthese 97 (2):209 - 227.
    This essay defends the role of law-like explanation in the social sciences by showing that the "argument from complexity" fails to demonstrate a difference in kind between the subject matter of natural and social science. There are problems internal to the argument itself - stemming from reliance on an overly idealized view of natural scientific practice - and reason to think that, based upon an analogy with a more sophisticated understanding of natural science, which makes use of "redescriptions" in the (...)
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  • The Structure of Appearance.G. P. Henderson - 1953 - Philosophical Quarterly 3 (12):282-284.
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  • Aspects of Scientific Explanation.Michael D. Resnik - 1966 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 27 (1):139-140.
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  • The model in physics.H. J. Groenewold - 1960 - Synthese 12 (2-3):222 - 227.
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  • (1 other version)The Quark and the Jaguar; Adventures in the Simple and the Complex.Murray Gell-Mann - 1996 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 27 (2):359-359.
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