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Does the arrow of time exist? Ilya Prigogine: between Science and Philosophy

09.06.2016

Author: IF

The third book in the collection has been published. From Science to Philosophy.

While we move through space in any direction, in time we can only move from the past to the future: we age inevitably; we cannot change what has happened; we remember the past, but we project the future. Why does time exhibit a unidirectionality that none of the three dimensions of space possess? Can the physical and chemical sciences account for this “arrow of time”? This is the problem that preoccupied Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, throughout his scientific career.

This book deals with the search for the arrow of time through the works of Prigogine, an author who developed his thinking between science and philosophy.

Olimpia Lombardi holds a degree in Electronic Engineering and a Bachelor's and Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She is a Principal Investigator at CONICET and a Professor at UBA, where she leads a research group specializing in the philosophy of the particular sciences (physics, chemistry, and biology). She is the author of five books and more than 150 articles. In 2006, she received the Konex Award for Logic and Philosophy of Science. Currently, she is working on the development of a new interpretation of quantum mechanics, the modal-Hamiltonian interpretation.

The book can be purchased here.

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