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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825972803321

Autore

Rosen Robert <1934-1998.>

Titolo

Essays on life itself / / Robert Rosen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-283-00872-6

9786613008725

0-231-50268-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 p.)

Collana

Complexity in ecological systems series

Disciplina

570/.1

Soggetti

Life (Biology) - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-346) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. On biology and physics -- pt. 2. On biology and the mind -- pt. 3. On genericity -- pt. 4. Similarity and dissimilarity in biology -- pt. 5. On biology and technology.

Sommario/riassunto

Compiling twenty articles on the nature of life and on the objective of the natural sciences, this remarkable book complements Robert Rosen's groundbreaking Life Itself -- a work that influenced a wide range of philosophers, biologists, linguists, and social scientists. In Essays on Life Itself, Rosen takes to task the central objective of the natural sciences, calling into question the attempt to create objectivity in a subjective world and forcing us to reconsider where science can lead us in the years to come.