Autopoiesis: Less than self-constitution, more than self-organization reply to gilkey, mcclelland and deutete, and brun

Zygon

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 117-138

  Gregersen, Niels Henrik ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Alfred north whitehead; Autopoiesis; Christian doctrine of creation; Divine causality; Evolution; General and particular providence; Langdon gilkey; Niklas luhmann; Paul tillich; Structuring causality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749858195     PISSN: 05912385     EISSN: 14679744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0591-2385.1971999197     Document Type: Article

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