Complex science for a complex world: Sandra D. Mitchell: Unsimple truths: science, complexity, and policy. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2009, x + 149 pp, US $27.50 HB [Book Review]

Metascience 19 (3):441-444 (2010)
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A review of Sandra D. Mitchell's excellent book "Unsimple Truths" I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in: - Scientific metaphysics - Philosophy of science - Emergence - Science and epistemology - Philosophy of complexity and complex systems - Non-reductive physicalism - Philosophical analyses of simulations - Prediction

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