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edited by
Carlos Gershenson

This volume consists of short, interview-style contributions by leading figures in the field of complexity, based on five questions. The answers trace their personal experience and expose their views on the definition, aspects, problems and future of complexity. The aim of the book is to bring together the opinions of researchers with different backgrounds on the emerging study of complex systems. In this way, we will see similarities and differences, agreements and debates among the approaches of different schools.

Interviews with: Peter M. Allen, Philip W. Anderson, W. Brian Arthur, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Eric Bonabeau, Paul Cilliers, Jim Crutchfeld, Bruce Edmonds, Nigel Gilbert, Hermann Haken, Francis Heylighen, Bernardo A. Huberman, Stuart A. Kaufman, Seth Lloyd, Gottfried Mayer-Kress, Melanie Mitchell, Edgar Morin, Mark Newman, Grégoire Nicolis, Jordan B. Pollack, Peter Schuster, Ricard V. Solé, Tamás Vicsek, Stephen Wolfram.

November 2008 | 156 pages | ISBN 8792130135
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edited by
Alan Hájek
Vincent F. Hendricks

Probability and Statistics: 5 Questions is a collection of short interviews based on 5 questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent scholars in probability and statistics. We hear their views on the fields, aims, scopes, the future direction of research and how their work fits in these respects. Interviews with Nick Bingham, Luc Bovens, Terrence L. Fine, Haim Gaifman, Donald Gillies, James Hawthorne, Carl Hoefer, James M. Joyce, Joseph B. Kadane Isaac Levi, D.H. Mellor, Patrick Suppes, Jan von Plato, Carl Wagner, Sandy Zabell.

September 2009 | Pages 216 | ISBN 8792130054
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edited by
Peer Bundgaard
Frederik Stjernfelt

Signs and Meaning: 5 Questions is a collection of short interviews based on 5 questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent scholars in semiotics and its broader intellectual environment. We hear their views on the field, the aim, scope, the future direction of research and how their work fits in these respects.

Interviews with Marcel Danesi, John Deely, Gilles Fauconnier, Jesper Hoffmeyer, Pat Hogan, Robert Innis, Jørgen Dines Johansen, Mark Johnson, Kalevi Kull, Jean Petitot, Roland Posner, Francois Rastier, Eleanor Rosch, Lucia Santaella, John Searle, Tom Short, Barry Smith, Göran Sonesson, John Sowa, Eero Tarasti, Len Talmy, Mark Turner, Wolfgang Wildgen.

September 2009  | 332 pages | ISBN 8792130119
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edited by
Mark Bedau
Pelle Guldborg Hansen
Emily Parke
Steen Rasmussen

This book is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning more about living technology, whether coming from business, the government, policy centers, academia, or anywhere else. Its purpose is to help people to learn what living technology is, what it might develop into, and how it might impact our lives. The phrase ‘living technology’ was coined to refer to technology that is alive as well as technology that is useful because it shares the fundamental properties of living systems. In particular, the invention of this phrase was called for to describe the trend of our technology becoming increasingly life-like or literally alive. Still, the phrase has different interpretations depending on how one views what life is. This book presents nineteen perspectives on living technology. Taken together, the interviews convey the collective wisdom on living technology’s power and promise, as well as its pitfalls and perils, from a list of authors with distinguished accomplishments in creating, using, or evaluating living technology.

Interviews with: Rachel Armstrong, Mark A. Bedau, Johan Bollen, Seth Bullock, Leroy Cronin, Ezequil Di Paolo, Martin Hanczyc, Inman Harvey, Takashi Ikegami, Serge Kernbach, John McCaskill, Norman H. Packard, Jean-Paul Peronard, Steen Rasmussen,  Markus Schmidt, Kasper Stoy, Giuseppe Testa, Michaela Ulieru, Rinnie van Est.

August 2010 | ISBN 8792130291
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edited by
Juan Ferret
John Symons

Philosophy of Physics: 5+1 Questions is a collection of short interviews based on 5 questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent scholars in the field. We hear their views on philosophy of physics, the aim, the scope, the future direction of research and how their work fits in these respects. Interviews with Frank Arntzenius, Guido Bacciagaluppi, Mario Bunge, John Earman, Brigitte Falkenburg, Steven French, Nick Hugget, Arthur Fine, Chuang Liu, Tim Maudlin, John D. Norton, Laurent Nottale, Roland Omnès, Carlo Rovelli, Lawrence Sklar, Paul Teller, Steve Weinstein.

Read snippets at www.foundationsofphysics.com

November 2010 | ISBN 8792130321
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