Origin(s) of design in nature [electronic resource] : a fresh, interdisciplinary look at how design emerges in complex systems, especially life / edited by Liz Swan, Richard Gordon, and Joseph Seckbach.
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...
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Origin of Design. The Initial Low Gravitational Entropy of the Universe as the Origin of Design in Nature / Charles H. Lineweaver and Chas A. Egan
- On the Biological Origin of Design in Nature / Attila Grandpierre
- Creativity in Nature / Steve McGrew
- Part 2. Philosophical aspects of design. Plato's Pythagorean Cosmos: Order and Chaos in the Intelligence of Natural Design / Mark Faller
- War or Peace? Huxley and Kropotkin's Battle Over the Design of Virtue / Oren Harman
- Free Will in God's Dice Game / Malcolm E. Schrader
- Does Biology Need a New Theory of Explanation? A Biological Perspective on Kant's Critique of Teleological Judgment / Chris Chetland
- Pragmatism, Inquiry, and Design: A Dynamic Approach / Tibor Solymosi
- The Design of Morality / John R. Shook
- Part 3. Theological aspects of design. The Best Mislaid Plans: A Religious Approach to the Question of the Planning of Reality / Yisrael Rozenson
- Judaism and Evolution in Four Dimensions: Biological, Spiritual, Cultural, and Intellectual / Shlomo E. Glicksberg
- Random Natural Laws Versus Direct Trends: A Cabbalistic Interpretation Based on the Teachings of Rabbi Kook / Dov Berger
- The Identity of Designer and Design / Klaus Konrad Klostermaier
- In the Beginning There Was Lightning: Fulguro-Genesis and Eduard Loewenthal's Religion of Religions / Elisabeth Rees-Dessauer
- Structure and Creativeness: A Reinterpretation of the Neo-Confucian Binary Category Li and Qi / Jana S. Rošker
- Evolution: The Biblical Account of Life's Development / Gerald L. Schroeder.
- Part 4. Darwinism as the backbone of the life sciences. Design and Disorder: Gould, Adaptationism and Evolutionary Psychiatry / Pieter R. Adriaens
- Architecture and Design Among Plants and Animals: Convergent and Divergent Developmental Mechanisms / Cory D. Bishop, Moira E. Galway and David J. Garbary
- The Lingual Taste Papillae: A Delicate and Complicated Nature's Design for Taste Modalities Perception / Natan Gadoth and Eliyahu Mass
- Divine Genesis, Evolution, and Astrobiology / Joseph Seckbach
- Consistent Patterns of Statistical Distributions in Natural Ecological Communities: Lake Phytoplankton / Yury Kamenir
- Coupling of Growth, Differentiation and Morphogenesis: An Integrated Approach to Design in Embryogenesis / Vincent Fleury and Richard Gordon
- Interior Cell Design: VICKZ Proteins Mediate RNA Localization and Cell Function / Joel K. Yisraeli
- Organic Codes and the Origin of Language / Marcello Barbieri
- Mechano-Sensing in Embryonic Biochemical and Morphologic Design: Evolutionary Perspectives on Emergence of Primary Organisms / Emmanuel Farge
- Part 5. 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 / Zann Gill
- The Synthetic Approach in Biology:Epistemic Notes for Synthetic Biology / Pier Luigi Luisi
- Necessity and Freedom in Designs of Nature / Josef Svoboda
- Not All Designs Are Created Equal / Tom Barbalet
- Design of Living Systems in the Information Age: Brain, Creativity, and the Environment / Michael D. Miran, Esta Miran and Nicole Chen
- Technological Design of Natural Exemplars / Massimo Negrotti
- Trouble for Natural Design / Arthur Ward
- Imagining a Theory of Everything for Adaptive Systems / Stephen P. Cook.
- Part 6. Design in the physical sciences. Hidden Order and the Origin of Complex Structures / Subhash Kak
- What the Fine-Tuning Argument Shows (and Doesn't Show) / Michael Dickson
- The Continuous Increase in the Complexity of the Designed Structures of the Universe Is Described as Movement Against Maximum Entropy / Arie S. Issar
- Law, Order, and Probability / Moshe Pollak
- Design and Self-Organization / Andrew M. Winters
- Development of Organisms as Self-Organization of Mechanically Stressed Macroscopic Designs / Lev V. Beloussov
- Playing God: The Historical Motivations of Artificial Life / Stephen Grand
- Part 7. Design in the social sciences. The Socially Constructed Natural Origins of Self-Organization / Diane M. Rodgers
- Complex Epidemics, Simplistic Tools: The Failure of AIDS Policy in Africa / Eileen Stillwaggon
- Part 8. Summary and Conclusions. Summary and Conclusion of Origin(s) of Design in Nature: A Fresh, Interdisciplinary Look at How Design Emerges in Complex Systems, Especially Life / Liz Stillwaggon Swan.