Emerging out of nature into history: The plurality of the sciences

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1809, 2003, Pages 1617-1633

  Ziman, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complexity; Emergence; Evolution; Narrative; Pluralism; Unpredictability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141923396     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1233     Document Type: Article

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