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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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
