Howard Pattee's theoretical biology - A radical epistemological stance to approach life, evolution and complexity

BioSystems

Volumn 60, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 159-177

  Umerez, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Code; Epistemic cut; Epistemological stance; Semantic closure; Symbol

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CODING; EVOLUTION; LIFE; PHILOSOPHY; REVIEW; SCIENCE; SYMBOLISM; THEORY; THINKING;

EID: 0035028293     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-2647(01)00114-9     Document Type: Article

References (87)

1. Algorithmic specification as a technique for computing with informal biological models
2. Evolution experiments with an artificial ecosystem
3. Two evolutionary theories: part I
4. Two evolutionary theories: part II
5. Introduction to the principles of mechanics
6. What philosophy of biology is not
7. Physics and the emergence of molecular biology
8. The naturalists return
9. Organism and environment
10. The organism as the subject and object of evolution
11. Cause and effect in biology
12. Downward causation at the core of living organization
13. On the origin of macromolecular sequences
14. The recognition of hereditary order in primitive chemical systems
15. Experimental approaches to the origin of life problem
16. Physical theories, automata and the origin of life
17. Quantum mechanics, heredity and the origin of life
18. Automata theories of hereditary tactic copolymerization
19. The physical basis of coding and reliability in biological evolution
20. Comments by H.H. Pattee
21. Physical conditions for primitive functional hierarchies
22. Physical problems of heredity and evolution
23. How does a molecule become a message?
24. The problem of biological hierarchy
25. Can life explain quantum mechanics?
26. Physical theories of biological co-ordination
27. Physical problems of decision-making constraints
28. Laws and constraints, symbols and languages
29. The evolution of self-simplifying systems
30. The nature of hierarchical controls in living matter
31. The physical basis and origin of hierarchical control
32. Postscript. Unsolved problems and potential applications of hierarchy theory
33. Physical problems of the origin of natural controls
34. Biological systems theory: descriptive and constructive complementarity
35. Cell psychology: an evolutionary approach to the symbol-matter problem
36. Universal principles of measurement and language functions in evolving systems
37. Simulations, realizations, and theories of life
38. Causation, control, and the evolution of complexity
39. Life's irreducible structure
40. Biological information: a skeptical look at some central dogmas of molecular biology
41. Antireductionism and molecular biology
42. Explanation and prediction in evolutionary biology
43. The architecture of complexity
44. The organization of complex systems
45. Physical models of biological information and adaptation
46. Bio-informational equivalence
47. The evolution of the symbolic domain in living systems and artificial life
48. Origin of life as the first MST - control hierarchies and inter level relation
49. The general and logical theory of automata
50. Epilogue