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References

by T Eastman  ●  July 28th, 2008  ●  2 Comments

Some References for the “Quantum Praxiology” project
in addition to books by CPNS Research Fellows

Books

Bedau, Mark and Paul Humphreys, eds., 2008. Emergence: Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Bub, Jeffrey. 1997. Interpreting the Quantum World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

d’Espagnat, Bernard, 2006. On Physics and Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Flanagan, Owen, 2007. The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Green, H. S., 2000. Information Theory and Quantum Physics: Physical Foundations for Understanding the Conscious Process. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Griffin, David, 1998. Unsnarling the World-Know: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem. Berkeley: UC Press.

Griffin, David, 2007. Whitehead’s Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy: An Argument for its Contemporary Relevance. Albany: SUNY Press.

Kauffman, Stuart, 2008. Reinventing the Sacred: A New view of Science, Reason, and Religion. NY: Basic Books. [see also Kauffman's earlier works: Investigations, At Home in the Universe, The Origins of Order]

Laughlin, Robert, 2005. A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down. NY: Basic Books.

Pred, Ralph, 2005. Onflow: Dynamics of Consciousness and Experience. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Rescher, Nicholas, 2000. Process Philosophy: A Survey of Basic Issues. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press [see also Rescher's Process Metaphysics, SUNY, 1996].

Rosenblum, Bruce and Fred Kuttner, 2006. Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness. Oxford: Oxfor University Press.

Teller, Paul, 1995. An Interpretive Introduction to Quantum Field Theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Walleczek, Jan, ed., 2000. Self-Organized Biological Dynamics & Nonlinear Control: Toward Understanding Complexity, Chaos and Emergent Function in Living Systems, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [includes papers by Paul Gailey and Jan Walleczek].

General Resources
Resource Guide for Physics and Whitehead, Eastman and Keeton, eds. (PS Supplements, 2004, Issue 6) available online at http://www.ctr4process.org/publications/ProcessStudies/PSS/
(includes many relevant references up to 2004).