Overview
In this groundbreaking book, Manuel DeLanda analyzes different genres of simulation, from cellular automata and generic algorithms to neural nets and multi-agent systems, as a means to conceptualize the space of possibilities associated with casual and other capacities. This remarkably clear philosophical discussion of a rapidly growing field, from a thinker at the forefront of research at the interface of science and the humanities, is a must-read for anyone interested in the philosophies of technology, emergence and science at all levels.
Full Product Details
Author: Professor Manuel DeLanda (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.350kg
ISBN: 9781441170286
ISBN 10: 1441170286
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 24 March 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Language: English
Reviews
Philosophy and Simulation is a book about affection - the capacity to affect and be affected by others - an organon for a non-reductive and emergent Theory of Everything, running from inorganic matter to the dawn of civilisation. Moving elegantly between science, history and computer simulation, the book is a fascinating and enormously wide-ranging introduction to DeLanda's singular world-view. - Andrew Pickering, Professor of Sociology and Philosophy, Exeter University, UK
Philosophy and Simulation is a book about affection - the capacity to affect and be affected by others - an organon for a non-reductive and emergent Theory of Everything, running from inorganic matter to the dawn of civilisation. Moving elegantly between science, history and computer simulation, the book is a fascinating and enormously wide-ranging introduction to DeLanda's singular world-view. --Andrew Pickering, Professor of Sociology and Philosophy, Exeter University, UK
The topic of this clearly written and well-documented text is the philosophical concept of emergence... Imaginative defences of philosophical realism are certainly to be applauded, and given the critical role that mathematical modelling occupies in both scientific and technical practices today, questioning computer simulation is undoubtedly important. Philosophy and Simulation does an interesting job of the former via the latter.--Sanford Lakoff
Author Information
Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher. He began his career in experimental film, later becoming a computer artist and programmer. He is now Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
