Artificial life and philosophy

Leonardo

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 401-405

  Moreno, Alvaro ^a  

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

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EID: 63749106705     PISSN: 0024094X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002409402760181204     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. C. Emmeche, The Garden in the Machine (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1994) p. 161
2. M. Boden, "Autonomy and Artificiality," in M. Boden, ed., The Philosophy of Artificial Life (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996) pp. 95-108
3. L. Risan, "Why Are There So Few Biologists Here?" in P. Husbands and I. Harvey; eds., Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997) pp. 28-35
4. A. Moreno and K. Ruiz-Mirazo, "Metabolism and the Problem of Its Universalization," Bio Systems 49, No. 1, 46-61 (1999)
5. N. Block, "What Is Functionalism?" in N. Block, ed., Readings in the Philosophy of Psychology, Vol. I (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press,' 1980) pp. 171-184
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7. C. Langton, "Artificial Life," in C. Langton, ed., Artificial Life (Redwood City; CA: Addison-Wesley, 1989) pp. 1-47
8. B.C. Smith, On the Origin of Objects (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996) pp. 75, 359
9. J. Casti, Would-Be Worlds: How Simulation Is Changing the Frontiers of Science (New York: John Wiley, 1997) pp. 187-188
10. J. Casti, "The Computer as a Laboratory," Complexity 4, No. 5, pp. 12-14 (1999)
11. D. Gross and R. Strand, "Can Agent-Based Models Assist Decisions on Large-Scale Practical Problems? A. Philosophical Analysis," Complexity 5, No. 6, 26-33(2000)
12. Quoted in J. Morgan, "From Complexity to Perplexity," Scientific American (June 1995) pp. 104-109
13. Miller, for example, has claimed that A-Life can only become a fully scientific discipline through its integration into the field of theoretical biology. See G. Miller, "Artificial Life as Theoretical Biology: How to Do Real Science with Computer Simulation," Technical Report CSRP 378, COGS (University of Sussex, U.K., 1995)
14. Casti, Would-Be Worlds [11]
15. D. Lane, "Models and Aphorisms," Complexity 1, No. 2, pp. 9-13 (.1.995)
16. G.B. Kleindorfer, L. O'Neil and R. Ganeshan, "Validation in Simulation: Various Positions in the Philosophy of Science," Management Science 44, No. 8, 1087-1099(1998)
17. D. Dennett, "Artificial Life as Philosophy," Artificial Life 1, No. 3, 291-292 (1994)