SELF-ORGANIZATION AND EMERGENCE IN LIFE SCIENCES

Self-organization constitutes one of the most important theoretical debates in contemporary life sciences. The present book explores the relevance of the concept of self-organization and its impact on such scientific fields as: immunology, neurosciences, ecology and theories of evolution. Historical...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: FELTZ, BERNARD (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), CROMMELINCK, MARC (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), GOUJON, PHILIPPE (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • I - Scientific Approach
  • The Complex Adaptative Systems Approach to Biology
  • Emergence and Reductionism: from the Game of Life to Science of Life
  • Formalizing Emergence: the Natural After-Life of Artificial Life
  • Analysis and Synthesis of Regulator Networks in Terms of Feedback Circuits
  • Properties Emerging from Sensorimotor Interfaces: Interaction Between Experimentation and Modeling in Neurosciences
  • Neuronal Synchrony and Cognitive Functions
  • About Biology and Subjectivity in Psychiatry
  • Self-Organization and Meaning in Immunology
  • II - Historic Approach
  • Kant and the Intuitions of Self-Organization
  • On a "Mathematical Neo-Aristotelism" in Leibniz
  • "Essential Force" and "Formative Force": Models for Epigenesis in the 18th Century
  • From Logic to Self-Organization–Learning about Complexity
  • The Concept of Emergence in the XIXth Century: from Natural Theology to Biology
  • Artificial Life and the Sciences of Complexity: History and Future
  • Self-Organization in Second-Order Cybernetics: Deconstruction or Reconstruction of Complexity
  • III - Epistemological and Conceptual Approaches
  • Teleology in Self-Organizing Systems
  • Phenomenology and Self-Organization
  • A Role for Mathematical Models in Formalizing Self-Organizing systems
  • Explanation and Causality in Self-Organizing Systems
  • Self-Organization, Selection and Emergence in the Theories of Evolution.