Richard E. Lee is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge and the coeditor (with Immanuel Wallerstein) of Overcoming the Two Cultures: Science versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System.

"Modern knowledge, according to the contributors to this multivolume exercise (based on three symposia), is based on three questionable premises and principles: determinism, reductionism, and dualism. Each volume interrogates these three principles and seeks to find alternative and more satisfying bases for knowledge. The volumes include formal papers as well as commentaries and edited transcripts of the discussions at each symposium. The range is truly extraordinary, with papers covering everything from economics to opera, cognitive neuroscience, literary studies, mathematical modeling, and systems theory … [the volumes] open a host of questions for scholars to ponder and suggest many enlightening lines of inquiry … Highly recommended." — CHOICE

• ParticipantsIllustrationsForewordImmanuel WallersteinIntroductionRichard E. LeeS E S S I O N I Freedom and Determinism in the Twenty-First Century: Prolegomena to the Rewriting of HistorySteve FullerDiscussionS E S S I O N I I Mobile Order: Between Chance and NecessityFernando GilDiscussionS E S S I O N I I I Determinism and Mathematical ModelingIvar EkelandDiscussionS E S S I O N I V Organizers’ Opening RemarksImmanuel WallersteinJean-Pierre Dupuy: Does Determinism Entail Necessitarianism?DiscussionIndex

Richard E. Lee is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge and the coeditor (with Immanuel Wallerstein) of Overcoming the Two Cultures: Science versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System.

"Modern knowledge, according to the contributors to this multivolume exercise (based on three symposia), is based on three questionable premises and principles: determinism, reductionism, and dualism. Each volume interrogates these three principles and seeks to find alternative and more satisfying bases for knowledge. The volumes include formal papers as well as commentaries and edited transcripts of the discussions at each symposium. The range is truly extraordinary, with papers covering everything from economics to opera, cognitive neuroscience, literary studies, mathematical modeling, and systems theory … [the volumes] open a host of questions for scholars to ponder and suggest many enlightening lines of inquiry … Highly recommended." — CHOICE

• ParticipantsIllustrationsForewordImmanuel WallersteinIntroductionRichard E. LeeS E S S I O N I Freedom and Determinism in the Twenty-First Century: Prolegomena to the Rewriting of HistorySteve FullerDiscussionS E S S I O N I I Mobile Order: Between Chance and NecessityFernando GilDiscussionS E S S I O N I I I Determinism and Mathematical ModelingIvar EkelandDiscussionS E S S I O N I V Organizers’ Opening RemarksImmanuel WallersteinJean-Pierre Dupuy: Does Determinism Entail Necessitarianism?DiscussionIndex

Richard E. Lee is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge and the coeditor (with Immanuel Wallerstein) of Overcoming the Two Cultures: Science versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System.

"Modern knowledge, according to the contributors to this multivolume exercise (based on three symposia), is based on three questionable premises and principles: determinism, reductionism, and dualism. Each volume interrogates these three principles and seeks to find alternative and more satisfying bases for knowledge. The volumes include formal papers as well as commentaries and edited transcripts of the discussions at each symposium. The range is truly extraordinary, with papers covering everything from economics to opera, cognitive neuroscience, literary studies, mathematical modeling, and systems theory … [the volumes] open a host of questions for scholars to ponder and suggest many enlightening lines of inquiry … Highly recommended." — CHOICE

• ParticipantsIllustrationsForewordImmanuel WallersteinIntroductionRichard E. LeeS E S S I O N I Freedom and Determinism in the Twenty-First Century: Prolegomena to the Rewriting of HistorySteve FullerDiscussionS E S S I O N I I Mobile Order: Between Chance and NecessityFernando GilDiscussionS E S S I O N I I I Determinism and Mathematical ModelingIvar EkelandDiscussionS E S S I O N I V Organizers’ Opening RemarksImmanuel WallersteinJean-Pierre Dupuy: Does Determinism Entail Necessitarianism?DiscussionIndex