Understanding Origins Contemporary Views on the Origins of Life, Mind and Society
The main intention of this book is to bring together contributions from biology, cognitive science, and the humanities for a joint exploration of some of the main contemporary notions dealing with the understanding of origins in life,mind and society. The question of origin is inseparable from a web...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1992, 1992
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1992 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Understanding Origins: An Introduction
- Origins: A View from the Literature
- I: Violence: The Origin of Social Order
- Supplement to Apocalypse: Girard and Derrida
- A Morphogenetic Hypothesis on the Closure of Post-Structuralism
- Girard and the Origin of Culture
- II: The Origin of Money: Symbols and Texts
- The Origin of Money
- Primitive Money, Modern Money
- III: Evolution and the Diversity of Life
- Origins of Order in Evolution: Self-Organization and Selection
- Optimization in Question
- Incorporating Origins into Evolutionary Theory
- The Evolution of Generic Forms
- Is Phylogeny Recapitulating Ontogeny?
- IV: Perception and the Origin of Cognition
- Whence Perceptual Meaning? A Cartography of Current Ideas
- Perception, Connectionism, and Cognitive Science
- The Original and the Copy
- Appendix / Symposium Program and List of Contributors
- Index of Authors
- Index of Names