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Reductionism vs complexity: Philip Anderson´s thoughts and their influence on other fields of knowledge

In this work, the relevance of the article by Philip Warren Anderson, “More is different”, for establishing complexety as a thematic category opposed to reductionism, is discussed, as well as his hierarchy of sciences. From a simple case in Physics, the appropriation of complexity in other sciences is illustrated by recente articles in the academic literature.

complexity; reductionism; emergence; interdisciplinarity


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