The thwarting of Laplace's demon: arguments against the mechanistic world-view

New York: St. Martin's Press (1995)
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This work deals with questions that range across the traditional disciplines of natural science and philosophy. Of these questions, some are about things usually thought of as scientific, such as embryonic development and evolution; others are about things, such as human language, intelligence and learning, which have been the concern if both scientists and philosophers.

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