An edition of Beyond mechanism
(2013)
Beyond mechanism
putting life back into biology
by Brian G. Henning and Adam Christian Scarfe
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Beyond mechanism: putting life back into biology
2013, Lexington Books
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Beyond Mechanism: Putting Life Back into Biology
2013, Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
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Table of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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