Origin(s) of Design in Nature (eBook)

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

Richard Gordon, Joseph Seckbach, Liz Swan (Herausgeber)

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2012
XXVII, 812 Seiten
Springer Netherlands (Verlag)
978-94-007-4156-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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

Inhalt

Introduction, Joseph Seckbach; Foreword, Julian Chela-Flores; Preface, Gerald Schroeder; PART I: ORIGIN OF DESIGNThe Initial Low Gravitational Entropy of the Universe as the Origin of Design in Nature, C. LineweaverOn the Biological Origin of Design in Nature, A. GrandpierreCreativity in Nature, S. McGrewPART II: PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF DESIGNPlato’s Pythagorean Cosmos: Order and Chaos in the Intelligence of Natural Design, M. FallerWar or Peace? Huxley and Kropotkin’s Battle Over the Design of Virtue, O.HarmanFree Will in God’s Dice Game, M SchraderDoes Biology Need a New Theory of Explanation? A biological perspective on Kant’s Critique of Teleological Judgment, C. ChetlandPragmatism, Inquiry, and Design: A Dynamic Approach, T. SolymosiThe Natural Design of Intelligence in Dewey’s Philosophy, J. ShookPART III: THEOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF DESIGNThe Best Mislaid Plans: A Religious Approach to the Question of the Planning of Reality, Y. RozensonJudaism and Evolution in Four Dimensions: Biological, Spiritual, Cultural, and Intellectual, S. GlicksbergRandom Natural Laws Versus Direct Trends: A Cabbalistic Interpretation Based on the Teachings of Rabbi Kook, D. BergerThe Identity of Designer and Design, K. KlostermaierIn the Beginning There Was Lightning: Fulguro-Genesis and Eduard Loewenthal’s Religion of Religions, E. Rees-DessauerStructure and Creativeness: A Reinterpretation of the Neo-Confucian Binary Category Li and Qi, J. RoskerEvolution: The Biblical Accounts of Life’s Development, G. SchroederPART IV: DARWINISM AS THE BACKBONE OF THE LIFE SCIENCESDesign and disorder: Gould, adaptationism and evolutionary psychiatry, P. AdriaensArchitecture and Design Among Plants and Animals: Convergent and Divergent Developmental Mechanisms, C. Bishop, M. Galway, and D. GarbaryThe Lingual Taste Palillae: A Delicate and Complicated Nature’s Design for Taste Modalities Perception, N. Gadoth and E. MassDivine Genesis, Evolution and Astrobiology, J. SeckbachConsistent Patterns of Statistical Distributions in Natural Ecological Communities: Lake Phytoplankton, Y, KamenirCoupling of growth, differentiation and morphogenesis: an integrated approach to design in embryogenesis, R. Gordon and V. FleuryInterior Cell Design: VICKZ Proteins Mediate RNA Localization And Cell Function, J. YisraeliOrganic Codes and the Origin of Language, M. BarbieriMechano-Sensing in Embryonic Biochemical and Morphologic Design: Evolutionary Perspectives in Primary Organisms Emergence, E. FargePART V: CRITICAL DISCUSSION OF DESIGN IN WHAT LIES BEYOND DARWINISMA Response to Darwin’s Dilemma: A-PR cycles and the origin of design in nature, Z. GillThe Synthetic Approach in Biology: Epistemic Notes for Synthetic Biology, P.L. LuisiNecessity and Freedom in Designs of Nature, J. SvobodaNot All Designs are Created Equal, T. BarbaletDesign of Living Systems in the Information Age: Brain, Creativity, and the Environment, M. Miran, E. Miran, and N. ChenFrom Nature to Naturoids and Back, M. NegrottiTrouble for Natural Design, A. WardImagining a Theory of Everything for Adaptive Systems, S. CookPART VI: DESIGN IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCESHidden Order and the Origin of Complex Structures, S. KakWhat the Fine-Tuning Argument Shows (and Doesn’t Show), M. DicksonThe Continuous Increase in the Complexity of the Designed Structures of the Universe is Described as Movement Against Infinite Entropy, A. IssarLaw, Order and Probability, M. PollakDesign and Self-Organization, A.M. WintersDevelopment of Organisms as Self-Organization of Mechanically Stressed Macroscopic Designs, L. BeloussovPlaying God: The Historical Motivations of Artificial Life, S. GrandPART VII: DESIGN IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCESThe Socially Constructed Natural Origins of Self-Organization, D. RodgersComplex Epidemics, Simplistic Tools: The Failure of AIDS Policy in Africa, E. StillwaggonPART VIII: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONSLast remarks on ORIGIN(S) OF DESIGN IN NATURE [ODIN], L. Swan

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.8.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology
• Reihe/Serie: Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology
• Zusatzinfo: XXVII, 812 p. 132 illus.
• Verlagsort: Dordrecht
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Complexity • Design • Evolution • Life • Nature
• ISBN-10: 94-007-4156-1 / 9400741561
• ISBN-13: 978-94-007-4156-0 / 9789400741560