Nature alive : essays on the emergence and evolution of living agents /

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"This volume pays homage to Alfred North Whitehead's (1861-1947) profound lecture and essay entitled "Nature Alive," which was one of his most mature expressions of his process-relational metaphysics - a holistic conceptual framework that renders vivid the dynamic character of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Scarfe, Adam Christian, 1972- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
Subjects:
Life > Origin.
Evolution (Biology)
Mechanism (Philosophy)
Naturalism.
Reductionism.
Vie > Origines.
Mécanisme (Philosophie)
Naturalisme.
Réductionnisme.
naturalism (philosophical movement)
Philosophy of science.
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology.
Ethics & moral philosophy.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Nature alive : the emergence and evolution of living agents / Lukasz Lamza and Adam C. Scarfe
  • Is environmental philosophy compatible with mechanistic neo-Darwinism? : organismic agency, intrinsic purposiveness, and the "new frontiers" of biology / Adam C. Scarfe
  • Cells, organisms, colonies, communities : the fuzziness of individuality in modern biology / Lukasz Lamza
  • The emergence of animal mind : shrinking the explanatory gap / Lawrence Cahoone
  • Possibility, spontaneity, and the general order of nature : Toward a general theory of emergence / Philip Rose
  • The physiological basis of organismic creativity / Gernot G. Falkner and Renate Falkner
  • Organismic intricacy : time, possibility, and nonrandom heritable novelty / Neil Dunaetz
  • Beyond mechanism, toward re-enchantment / Philip Tryon.

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