Del 23 - Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology

Origin(s) of Design in Nature

A Fresh, Interdisciplinary Look at How Design Emerges in Complex Systems, Especially Life

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Av Liz Swan, Richard Gordon, Joseph Seckbach

2 809 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar

Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Origin(s) of Design in Nature is a collection of over 40 articles from prominent researchers in the life, physical, and social sciences, medicine, and the philosophy of science that all address the philosophical and scientific question of how design emerged in the natural world. The volume offers a large variety of perspectives on the design debate including progressive accounts from artificial life, embryology, complexity, cosmology, theology and the philosophy of biology. This book is volume 23 of the series, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. www.springer.com/series/5775

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-08-23
Mått155 x 235 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology
Antal sidor812
FörlagSpringer
ISBN9789401779630

Du kanske också är intresserad av

Origin(s) of Design in Nature

Del 23

Origin(s) of Design in Nature

Liz Swan, Richard Gordon, Joseph Seckbach

2 809 kr

Journey to Diverse Microbial Worlds

Del 2

Journey to Diverse Microbial Worlds

Joseph Seckbach

2 109 kr

Science of Astrobiology

Del 20

Science of Astrobiology

Julian Chela-Flores

2 809 kr

Symbioses and Stress

Del 17

Symbioses and Stress

Joseph Seckbach, Martin Grube

4 549 kr

Symbiosis

Del 4

Symbiosis

J. Seckbach, Joseph Seckbach, J. Seckbach

4 139 kr

Life on Earth and other Planetary Bodies

Del 24

Life on Earth and other Planetary Bodies

Arnold Hanslmeier, Stephan Kempe, Joseph Seckbach

2 109 kr

Origins

Del 6

Origins

Joseph Seckbach, Joseph Seckbach

2 809 kr

Genesis - In The Beginning

Del 22

Genesis - In The Beginning

Joseph Seckbach

2 809 kr

Microbial Mats

Del 14

Microbial Mats

Seckbach, Joseph Seckbach, Aharon Oren

2 809 kr

Algae and Cyanobacteria in Extreme Environments

Del 11

Algae and Cyanobacteria in Extreme Environments

J. Seckbach, Joseph Seckbach

4 139 kr

Tillhör följande kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Astronomi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Biologi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Biovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Teknik: allmänt inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion
Referensverk och tvärvetenskap inom Samhalle och politik

Introduction.- Foreword.- Preface.- PART I: Origin of Design.- The Initial Low Gravitational Entropy of the Universe as the Origin of Design in Nature.- On the Biological Origin of Design in Nature.- Creativity in Nature.- PART II: Philosophical aspects of design.- Plato’s Pythagorean Cosmos: Order and Chaos in the Intelligence of Natural Design.- War or Peace? Huxley and Kropotkin’s Battle Over the Design of Virtue.- Free Will in God’s Dice Game.- Does Biology Need a New Theory of Explanation? A biological perspective on Kant’s Critique of Teleological Judgment.- Pragmatism, Inquiry, and Design: A Dynamic Approach.- The Natural Design of Intelligence in Dewey’s Philosophy.- PART III: Theological aspects of design.- The Best Mislaid Plans: A Religious Approach to the Question of the Planning of Reality.- Judaism and Evolution in Four Dimensions: Biological, Spiritual, Cultural, and Intellectual.- Random Natural Laws Versus Direct Trends: A Cabbalistic Interpretation Based on the Teachings of Rabbi Kook.- The Identity of Designer and Design.- In the Beginning There Was Lightning: Fulguro-Genesis and Eduard Loewenthal’s Religion of Religions.- Structure and Creativeness: A Reinterpretation of the Neo-Confucian Binary Category Li and Qi.- Evolution: The Biblical Accounts of Life’s Development.- PART IV: Darwinism as the backbone of the life sciences.- Design and disorder: Gould, adaptationism and evolutionary psychiatry.- Architecture and Design Among Plants and Animals: Convergent and Divergent Developmental Mechanisms.- The Lingual Taste Palillae: A Delicate and Complicated Nature’s Design for Taste Modalities Perception.- Divine Genesis, Evolution and Astrobiology.- Consistent Patterns of Statistical Distributions in Natural Ecological Communities: Lake Phytoplankton.- Coupling of growth, differentiation and morphogenesis: an integrated approach to design in embryogenesis.- Interior CellDesign: VICKZ Proteins Mediate RNA Localization And Cell Function.- Organic Codes and the Origin of Language.- Mechano-Sensing in Embryonic Biochemical and Morphologic Design: Evolutionary Perspectives in Primary Organisms Emergence.- PART V: Critical discussion of design in what lies beyond Darwinism.- A Response to Darwin’s Dilemma: A-PR cycles and the origin of design in nature.- The Synthetic Approach in Biology: Epistemic Notes for Synthetic Biology.- Necessity and Freedom in Designs of Nature.- Not All Designs are Created Equal.- Design of Living Systems in the Information Age: Brain, Creativity, and the Environment.- From Nature to Naturoids and Back.- Trouble for Natural Design.- Imagining a Theory of Everything for Adaptive Systems.- PART VI: Design in the physical sciences.- Hidden Order and the Origin of Complex Structures.- What the Fine-Tuning Argument Shows (and Doesn’t Show).- The Continuous Increase in the Complexity of the Designed Structures of the Universe is Described as Movement Against Infinite Entropy.- Law, Order and Probability.- Design and Self-Organization.- Development of Organisms as Self-Organization of Mechanically Stressed Macroscopic Designs.- Playing God: The Historical Motivations of Artificial Life.- PART VII: Design in the social sciences.- The Socially Constructed Natural Origins of Self-Organization.- Complex Epidemics, Simplistic Tools: The Failure of AIDS Policy in Africa.- PART VIII: Summary and conclusions.- Last remarks on ORIGIN(S) OF DESIGN IN NATURE [ODIN].