Overview
- Highly interdisciplinary with three main approaches: scientific, historical and philosophical
- In each of these approaches the different thematics are presented by high level contributors
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 331)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I - Scientific Approach
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Part II - Historic Approach
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Part III - Epistemological and Conceptual Approaches
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About this book
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 aspects of the issue are also broached. Intuitions relative to self-organization can be found in the works of such key western philosophical figures as Aristotle, Leibniz and Kant. Interacting with more recent authors and cybernetics, self-organization represents a notion in keeping with the modern world's discovery of radical complexity.
The themes of teleology and emergence are analyzed by philosophers of sciences with regards to the issues of modelization and scientific explanation.
The implications of self-organization for life sciences are here approached from an interdisciplinary angle, revealing the notion as already rewarding and full of promise for the future.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Self-organization and Emergence in Life Sciences
Editors: BERNARD FELTZ, MARC CROMMELINCK, PHILIPPE GOUJON
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3917-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3916-4Published: 13 January 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6997-9Published: 10 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3917-1Published: 10 July 2006
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 352
Topics: Life Sciences, general, Philosophy, general, Philosophy of Biology, Epistemology, History of Science