The causal universe [electronic resource] / edited by George F.R. Ellis, Michael Heller, Tadeusz Pabjan.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Ellis, George F. R. (George Francis Rayner) (Editor) Heller, Michael, 1949- (Editor) Pabjan, Tadeusz (Editor)
Language:	English
Published:	Kraków : Copernicus Center Press, [2013]
Subjects:	Causality (Physics) Cosmology.
Online Access:	ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2013 (Ebook Central @ Proquest) EBSCO eBooks: 2013 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2013 (EBSCO)
Format:	Electronic eBook

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.