"A reissue of a classic work in philosophical biology written by Francisco Varela, with introductory material by Evan Thompson and Ezequiel Di Paolo"--
"A reissue of a classic work in philosophical biology written by Francisco Varela, with introductory material by Evan Thompson and Ezequiel Di Paolo"--
Francisco J. Varela (1946–2001) was Director of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique; Professor of Cognitive Science and Epistemology, CREA, at the Ecole Polytechnique; and Cofounder of the Mind and Life Institute. Ezequiel A. Di Paolo is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Basque Foundation for Science and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex. Evan Thompson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, where he is also Associate Member of the Department of Asian Studies and the Department of Psychology. He is a coauthor of The Embodied Mind and The Blind Spot (both MIT Press), an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a past President of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. Amy Cohen Varela is Chairperson of the Mind & Life Europe Board and involved with Mind and Life since its inception. She is also a clinical psychologist specialized in psychodynamic therapy and philosophy. Amy studied comparative literature at Brown and Columbia Universities before moving to Paris in the early ’80s, where she received her degree in clinical psychology at the University of Paris 7, with a specialty in psychodynamic theory and practice, and in parallel, completed psychoanalytic training.
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Foreword Introduction to the New Edition. A Message from the Margins Preface. Information and Control Revisited Part I. Autonomy of the Living and Organizational Closure 1. Autonomy and Biological Thinking 2. Autopoiesis and the Organization of Living Systems 3. A Tessellation Example of Autopoiesis 4. Embodiments of Autopoiesis 5. The Individual in Development and Evolution 6. On the Consequences of Autopoiesis 7. The Idea of Organizational Closure Part II. Descriptions, Distinctions, and Circularities 8. Operational Explanations and the Dispensability of Information 9. Symbolic Explanations 10. The Framework of Complementarities 11. Calculating Distinctions 12. Closure and Dynamics of Form 13. Eigenbehavior Part III. Cognitive Processes 14. The Immune Network: Self and Nonsense in the Molecular Domain 15. The Nervous System as a Closed Network 16. Epistemology Naturalized Appendices Appendix A Algorithm for a Tesselation Example of Autopoiesis Appendix B Some Remarks on Reflexive Domains and Logic Bibliography
Foreword Introduction to the New Edition. A Message from the Margins Preface. Information and Control Revisited Part I. Autonomy of the Living and Organizational Closure 1. Autonomy and Biological Thinking 2. Autopoiesis and the Organization of Living Systems 3. A Tessellation Example of Autopoiesis 4. Embodiments of Autopoiesis 5. The Individual in Development and Evolution 6. On the Consequences of Autopoiesis 7. The Idea of Organizational Closure Part II. Descriptions, Distinctions, and Circularities 8. Operational Explanations and the Dispensability of Information 9. Symbolic Explanations 10. The Framework of Complementarities 11. Calculating Distinctions 12. Closure and Dynamics of Form 13. Eigenbehavior Part III. Cognitive Processes 14. The Immune Network: Self and Nonsense in the Molecular Domain 15. The Nervous System as a Closed Network 16. Epistemology Naturalized Appendices Appendix A Algorithm for a Tesselation Example of Autopoiesis Appendix B Some Remarks on Reflexive Domains and Logic Bibliography
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