Beyond design: Cybernetics, biological computers and hylozoism

Synthese

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 469-491

  Pickering, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological computing; Computing; Cybernetics; Design; Gordon Pask; Hylozoism; Martin Heidegger; Stafford Beer

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349227461     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9446-z     Document Type: Article

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