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Titre(s) : Beyond mechanism [Texte imprimé] : putting life back into biology / edited by Brian G. Henning and Adam C. Scarfe ; with a foreword by Stuart A. Kauffman
Publication : Lanham : Lexington books, cop. 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-474 p.) ; 24 cm
Comprend : Foreword : Evolution beyond Newton, Darwin, and entailing law / Stuart A. Kauffman
; Introduction : On a "life-blind spot" in neo-Darwinism's mechanistic metaphysical
lens / Adam C. Scarfe ; Complex systems dynamics in evolution and emergent processes
/ Bruce H. Weber ; Why emergence matters / Philip Clayton ; On the incompatibility
of the neo-Darwinian hypothesis with systems-theoretical explanations of biological
development / Gernot Falkner and Renate Falkner ; Process-first ontology / Robert
E. Ulanowicz ; Ordinal pluralism as metaphysics for biology / Lawrence Cahoone ; Why
do we need a semiotic understanding of life ? / Jesper Hoffmeyer ; The irreducibility
of life to mentality : biosemiotics or emergence ? / Lawrence Cahoone ; Biology's
Second Law : homeostasis, purpose and desire / J. Scott Turner ; "Wind at life's back"
; toward a naturalistic, Whiteheadian teleology : symbiogenesis and the Second Law
/ Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis ; Of termites and men: on the ontology of collective
individuals / Brian G. Henning ; the Baldwin Effect in an extended evolutionary synthesis
/ Bruce H. Weber ; On the ramifications of the theory of organic selection for environmental
and evolutionary ethics / Adam C. Scarfe ; Teleology versus mechanism in biology :
beyond self-organization / Terrence Deacon and Tyrone Cashman ; Teleodynamics : a
neo-naturalistic conception of organismic teleology / Spyridon Koutroufinis ; Epigenesis,
epigenetics, and the epigenotype : toward an inclusive concept of development and
evolution / Brian K. Hall ; Epigenetics, soft inheritance, mechanistic metaphysics,
and bioethics / Adam C. Scarfe ; From organicism to mechanism ; and halfway back ?
/ Michael Ruse ; Machines and organisms: the rise and fall of a conflict / Philip
Clayton.
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Henning, Brian G. (1976-....). Éditeur scientifique
Scarfe, Adam Christian (1972-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Biologie -- Philosophie
Vie (biologie)
Sciences de la vie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0739174363. - ISBN 9780739174364. - ISBN 0739174371. - ISBN 9780739174371
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44294476j
Notice n° :
FRBNF44294476
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