Self-organization and Emergence in Life Sciences

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...

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Other Authors: Feltz, Bernard (Editor), Crommelinck, Marc (Editor), Goujon, Philippe (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2006, 2006
Edition:1st ed. 2006
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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505 0 |a I - Scientific Approach -- The Complex Adaptative Systems Approach to Biology -- Emergence and Reductionism: from the Game of Life to Science of Life -- Formalizing Emergence: the Natural After-Life of Artificial Life -- Analysis and Synthesis of Regulator Networks in Terms of Feedback Circuits -- Properties Emerging from Sensorimotor Interfaces: Interaction Between Experimentation and Modeling in Neurosciences -- Neuronal Synchrony and Cognitive Functions -- About Biology and Subjectivity in Psychiatry -- Self-Organization and Meaning in Immunology -- II - Historic Approach -- Kant and the Intuitions of Self-Organization -- On a "Mathematical Neo-Aristotelism" in Leibniz -- "Essential Force" and "Formative Force": Models for Epigenesis in the 18th Century -- From Logic to Self-Organization–Learning about Complexity -- The Concept of Emergence in the XIXth Century: from Natural Theology to Biology -- Artificial Life and the Sciences of Complexity: History and Future -- Self-Organization in Second-Order Cybernetics: Deconstruction or Reconstruction of Complexity -- III - Epistemological and Conceptual Approaches -- Teleology in Self-Organizing Systems -- Phenomenology and Self-Organization -- A Role for Mathematical Models in Formalizing Self-Organizing systems -- Explanation and Causality in Self-Organizing Systems -- Self-Organization, Selection and Emergence in the Theories of Evolution 
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520 |a 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