Development and evolution : complexity and change in biology
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Development and evolution : complexity and change in biology
MIT Press, c1993
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"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-345) and indexes
内容説明・目次
内容説明
"Development and Evolution" surveys and illuminates the key themes of rapidly changing fields and areas of controversy that the redefining the theory and philosophy of biology. It continues Stanley Salthe's investigation of evolutionary theory, begun in his influential book "Evolving Hierarchical Systems", while negating the implicit philosophical mechanisms of much of that work. Here Salthe attempts to reinitiate a theory of biology from the perspective of development rather than from that of evolution, recognizing the applicability of general systems thinking to biological and social phenomena and pointing towards a non-Darwinian and even a postmodern biology. Salthe's intent is nothing less than to provide, with this alternative paradigm, a position from which the deconstruction of the Bacononian/Cartesian/Newtonian/Darwinian/Comptian tradition becomes possible, while at the same time suggesting in its place an organic view predicated upon Aristotelian and Hegelian antecedents. In the face of complexity, we must alter our view of the universe as inherently ordered and predictable; order develops, but at great cost.
Explorating of the nature of change in a complex world, Salthe attempts to bring together such disparate areas as hierarchy theory, information theory, and semiotics in illuminating ways as he seeks a mode of answering questions as to the nature of complexity and as to how we might derive information from the interactions of the parts of a contextualized developing system.
目次
- Introduction - observing and making complexity, infodynamics, Aristotelian complex causality, Peircean semiotics, infodynamics in biology, the problem of change
- hierarchy theory - the scalar hierarchy (Hsc), the specification hierarchy
- nonequilibrium thermodynamics - the classical, externalist formulation, macroscopic information as entropic, the internalist perspective of expanding phase space, paired infodynamical perspectives, toward an infodynamics
- self-organization, development, and individuation - the type/token distinction, ecological and genealogical hierarchies, development and individuation, self-organization, agency, self-organization as modelling the environment, self-organization and the collecting/cascading cycle, some new theoretical entities
- the search for a theory of change - what is newness?, Newtonian "Change" - no output without input, emergence, emergence as a mode of development, change in Hegelian systems, historical dialectics, dialectics and development, notes toward modelling change
- immature, mature, senescent - Darwinian cosmology, developmental cosmology, the infodynamical view of the origin and evolution of living systems. Appendices: the constructive universe and the evolutionary systems framework, Juan Alvarez de Lorenzana.
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