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Beyond mechanism : putting life back into biology
- Title
- Beyond mechanism : 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, [2013]
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- Description
- ix, 474 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780739174364 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0739174363 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0739174371 (electronic)
- 9780739174371 (electronic)
- 9780739174371 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2012044647
- 99953788220
- OCLC
- 820530937
- ocn820530937
- SCSB-5688632
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries