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Theoretical principles of relational biology : space, time, organization / Angelo Marinucci.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marinucci, Angelo.
- Series:
- Human perspectives in health sciences and technology ; v. 6.
- Human Perspectives in Health Sciences and Technology ; v.6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biology--Philosophy.
- Biology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (143 p.).
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer, 2023.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Bibliography
- Contents
- Part I Biological Relational Space
- Deterministic Biology
- Reduction and Reductionism
- Reductionism in Biology
- Physics Before Poincaré and Boltzmann
- Boltzmann: The Images of Nature
- Before Poincaré: Noise and Determinism
- Interactions in Deterministic and Reductionist Framework
- The Concept of Space as Container
- Relational Biology
- The Concept of Relation and the Problem of Space
- The Relation
- The Relational Space and General Relativity
- From Physical Relational Space to Biological Relational Space
- Randomness, Probability and Measurement in Biology
- Physical Symmetries and Biological Breakings
- Preserving Possibility
- Physics
- Biology
- From Possibility to Reality in Biology: The Concept of Thickness
- Contingency and Possibility
- Contingency and Context
- Contingency and ``Exceeding'' Possibility
- Thickness, Symmetrization and Variation
- Differences Without Concept
- Biology, Differences and Colors
- Biology and Relations
- Part II Biological Times and Organizations
- The Problem of Time
- Considerations About Physical and Biological Time
- Measuring Time and Measuring Movement
- Time from Movement
- The Entropy Between Physics and Biology
- Entropy in Physics
- Entropy and Relational Biology
- Times, Thickness and Relational Space
- Time, Thickness and Organization
- Time, Stability and Thickness
- Time, Stability and Organization
- Organization as Historical-Empirical A Priori
- Enablement, Thickness and Causality
- Cause and Enablement
- Enablement and Thickness
- Thickness and Causality
- Bibliography
- Ontophylogenesis, Interpretation and Symmetries
- Organisms, Plurality and Interpretation
- The Myth of ``Origin''
- Symmetry and Plurality
- Traces and Symmetries
- Biological Traces
- Symmetries and Interpretation
- The Role of Symmetries and Traces
- The Interpretative Field
- Conclusions
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 12, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Marinucci, Angelo Theoretical Principles of Relational Biology
- ISBN:
- 9783031393747
- 3031393740
- Publisher Number:
- 99994911355
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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