An Introduction to Chaotic Dynamics

Robert C. Bishop is Professor of Physics and Philosophy and the John and Madeleine McIntyre Endowed Professor of Philosophy and History of Science in the Department of Physics and Engineering at Wheaton College. His research focuses on History and philosophy of physics and the social sciences and free will, with special attention to emergence, determinism, chaos, and complexity. He is author of Chaos Theory: A Quick Immersion (Tibidabo Publishing, 2023), and The Physics of Emergence Second Edition (Institute of Physics Press, 2024), and co-author of Emergence in Context: A Science-First Approach to Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2022).