Beyond mechanism
Subtitle: putting life back into biology
By: edited by Brian G. Henning and Adam C. Scarfe ; with a foreword by Stuart A. Kauffman
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lanham, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780739174364; 9780739174371; 9781498511223
Subjects: Life; Biological Phenomena; 42.10 theoretical biology; Research; Biologie; Leben; Life (Biology); Sciences de la vie; Life sciences; Philosophie
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: Evolution beyond Newton, Darwin, and entailing law / Stuart A. Kauffman; title: Introduction: On a "life-blind spot" in neo-Darwinism's mechanistic metaphysical lens / Adam C. Scarfe; title: Complex systems dynamics in evolution and emergent processes / Bruce H. Weber; title: Why emergence matters / Philip Clayton; title: On the incompatibility of the neo-Darwinian hypothesis with systems-theoretical explanations of biological development / Gernot Falkner and Renate Falkner; title: Process-first ontology / Robert E. Ulanowicz; title: Ordinal pluralism as metaphysics for biology / Lawrence Cahoone; title: Why do we need a semiotic understanding of life? / Jesper Hoffmeyer; title: The irreducibility of life to mentality: biosemiotics or emergence? / Lawrence Cahoone; title: Biology's Second Law: homeostasis, purpose and desire / J. Scott Turner; title: "Wind at life's back"; title: toward a naturalistic, Whiteheadian teleology: symbiogenesis and the Second Law / Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis; title: Of termites and men: on the ontology of collective individuals / Brian G. Henning; title: The Baldwin Effect in an extended evolutionary synthesis / Bruce H. Weber; title: On the ramifications of the theory of organic selection for environmental and evolutionary ethics / Adam C. Scarfe; title: Teleology versus mechanism in biology: beyond self-organization / Terrence Deacon and Tyrone Cashman; title: Teleodynamics: a neo-naturalistic conception of organismic teleology / Spyridon Koutroufinis; title: Epigenesis, epigenetics, and the epigenotype: toward an inclusive concept of development and evolution / Brian K. Hall; title: Epigenetics, soft inheritance, mechanistic metaphysics, and bioethics / Adam C. Scarfe; title: From organicism to mechanism; title: and halfway back? / Michael Ruse; title: Machines and organisms: the rise and fall of a conflict / Philip Clayton.