Law and Prediction in the Light of Chaos Research

Paul Weingartner, Ph.D. 1961 (Philosophy/Physics) Univ. of Innsbruck, Prof. of Philosophy 1971- (em.1999) Univ. of Salzburg and Institut fuer Wissenschaftstheorie. Honory Doctorate 1995 Marie Curie Univ. Lublin, Member of the New York Academy of Sciences. 10 books, 36 books edited, 150 articles. Guest professorships and guest lectures at more than 100 universities. Paul Weingartner is one of the most distinguished philosophers and logicians in German language countries. He has published many books and articles in the domains of philosophy of sciences, logic, ethics and philosophy of religion.

Gerhard Schurz studierte Naturwissenschaften (Mag. rer. nat.) sowie Philosophie und Soziologie (Dr. phil.) an der Universität Graz. Nach Professuren an den Universitäten Salzburg und Erfurt und Gastprofessuren an der University of California (Irivine) und an der Yale University ist er seit 2002 Lehrstuhlinhaber und Forschungsgruppenleiter für Theoretische Philosophie an der Universität Düsseldorf. Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten gehören die Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Logik, Kognitive Wissenschaft und verallgemeinerte Evolutionstheorie.

Time, chaos and the laws of nature.- Natural laws and human prediction.- Comment on Boris Chirikov's paper "Natural laws and human prediction".- Natural laws and the physics of complex systems comments on the report by B. Chirikov.- Discussion of Boris Chrikov's paper.- Under what transformations are laws invariant?.- Contingency and fundamental laws comment on Paul Weingartner "Under what transformations are laws invariant?".- Discussion of Paul Weingartner's paper.- The status of determinism in an uncontrollable world.- Discussion of David Miller's paper.- Kinds of unpredictability in deterministic systems.- Discussion of Gerhard Schurz' paper.- Decoherence, determinism and chaos revisited.- Discussion of H. Pierre Noyes' paper.- Photons, billiards and chaos.- Discussion of Pat Suppes' paper.- Chaos: Algorithmic complexity vs. Dynamical instability.- Discussion of Robert Batterman's paper.- On the foundations of synergetics.- Discussion of Arne Wunderlin's paper.