期刊名称：Avant : Journal of Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard
印刷版ISSN：2082-7598
电子版ISSN：2082-6710
出版年度：2012
卷号：III
期号：2
出版社：Centre for Philosophical Research
摘要：What is complexity. Why are some things complex and others are not. Why cannot complex things be captured by methods used by classical reductionism, and why does the understanding of complexity matter today. If these questions are too general, then perhaps: how does an ant colony organize itself. How does the immune system work. What is a logistic map and fractal dimension.These are some of the questions that Melanie Mitchell tries to answer in her guidebook to the phenomenon of complexity. Does she succeed. Well, in my opinion she does because it is not just a simple book about complexity. It is a book written with passion, where a large number of topics are related to biographic stories. It is a fascinating introduction to many interdisciplinary issues that have one word in common -com-plexity
