Complexity A Philosophical Overview | Philosophy

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Our world is enormously sophisticated and nature's complexity is literally inexhaustible. As a result projects to describe and explain natural science can never be completed. This volume explores the nature of complexity and considers its bearing on our world and how we manage our affairs within it. Rescher's overall lesson is that the management of our affairs within a socially technologically and cognitively complex environment is plagued with vast management problems and risks of mishap. In primitive societies failure to understand how things work can endanger a family or at worst a clan or tribe. In the modern world man-made catastrophes on the model of Chernobyl can endanger millions p…