Investigations /

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Author / Creator:	Kauffman, Stuart A.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Description:	xii, 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Life -- Origin -- Philosophy. Self-organizing systems -- Philosophy. Molecular evolution -- Philosophy. Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy. Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy. Life -- Origin -- Philosophy. Molecular evolution -- Philosophy. Self-organizing systems -- Philosophy.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4397433

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ISBN:	019512104X (cloth : acid-free paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-272) and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
1. Prolegomenon to a General Biology
2. The Origins of Life
3. Autonomous Agents
4. Propagating Organization
5. A Physics of Semantics?
6. Emergence and Story: Beyond Newton, Einstein, and Bohr?
7. The Nonergodic Universe: The Possibility of New Laws
8. Candidate Laws for the Coconstruction of a Biosphere
9. The Persistently Innovative Econosphere
10. A Coconstructing Cosmos?
Epilogue
References
Index