Emergence, complexity, and self-organization
Subtitle: precursors and prototypes
By: edited and introduced by Alicia Juarrero & Carl A. Rubino
Series: Exploring complexity -- v. 4; Exploring complexity -- v. 4.
Publisher: Emergent Publications
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Litchfield Park, AZ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780984216482
Subjects: Self-organizing systems; Mechanism (Philosophy); Science; Emergence (Philosophy); Philosophy; Complexity (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Emergence, complexity, and self-organization : precursors and prototypes  -- Alicia Juarrero & Carl Rubino; title: Analytic of teleological judgement (1790)  -- Immanuel Kant; title: On the composition of causes (1843)  -- John Stuart Mill; title: Design and chance (1883)  -- Charles S. Peirce; title: Mechanism and experiment (1893)  -- Henri Poincaré; title: Evolution of life : mechanism and teleology (1911) (Extract)  -- Henri Bergson; title: Order of qualities (1920)  -- Samuel Alexander; title: Emergence (1923)  -- C. Lloyd Morgan; title: Mechanism and its alternatives  -- C.D. Broad -- Selections from "Science and the modern world" (1925) / -- Alfred North Whitehead; title: The holistic universe (1926)  -- Jan C. Smuts; title: The meanings of "emergence" and its modes (1926)  -- Arthur O. Lovejoy; title: Order, disorder, and entropy (1944)  -- Erwin Schrödinger; title: The concept of emergence (1956)  -- Paul E. Meehl & Wilfrid Sellars; title: Outline of general system theory (1950) -- Ludwig von Bertalanffy.