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  1. Principles of Biological Autonomy.Francisco J. Varela - 1979 - North-Holland.
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  • (1 other version)Models and Analogies in Science.Mary B. Hesse - 1963 - [Notre Dame, Ind.]: University of Notre Dame Press.
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  • (1 other version)Semantic networks of English.George A. Miller & Christiane Fellbaum - 1992 - In Beth Levin & Steven Pinker (eds.), Lexical & conceptual semantics. Cambridge, Ma.: Blackwell. pp. 197-229.
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  • Varieties of realism: a rationale for the natural sciences.Rom Harré - 1986 - New York, NY, USA: Blackwell.
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  • Situations and Attitudes.Jon Barwise & John Perry - 1983 - Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Edited by John Perry.
    This volume tackles the slippery subject of 'meaning'.
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  • What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches.Roger Schrodinger, Erwin Schrödinger & Erwin Schr Dinger - 1992 - Cambridge University Press.
    Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life?, one of the great science classics of the twentieth century appears here together with Mind and Matter.
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  • The Principles of Scientific Thinking.R. Harré - 1972 - Synthese 25 (1):248-253.
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  • The principles of scientific thinking.Rom Harré - 1970 - London,: Macmillan.
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  • Living things as hierarchically organized structures.Uko Zylstra - 1992 - Synthese 91 (1-2):111 - 133.
    Hierarchical organization is an essential characteristic of living things. Although most biologists affirm the concept of living things as hierarchically organized structures, there are widespread differences of interpretation in the meaning of hierarchy and of how the concept of hierarchy applies to living things. One such basic difference involves the distinction between the concept of control hierarchy and classification hierarchy. It is suggested that control hierarchies are distinguished from classification hierarchies in that while the former involve authority relationships between levels, (...)
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  • An examination of some metaphorical contexts for biologically motivated computing.R. C. Paton, H. S. Nwana, M. J. R. Shave & T. J. M. Bench-Capon - 1994 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (2):505-525.
    Biologically motivated computing seeks to transfer ideas from the biosciences to computer science. In seeking to make transfers it is helpful to be able to appreciate the metaphors which people use. This is because metaphors provide the context through which analogies and similes are made and by which many scientific models are constructed. As such, it is important for any rapidly evolving domain of knowledge to have developments accounted for in these terms. This paper seeks to provide one overview of (...)
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  • Molecular biology and the unity of science.Harold Kincaid - 1990 - Philosophy of Science 57 (4):575-593.
    Advances in molecular biology have generally been taken to support the claim that biology is reducible to chemistry. I argue against that claim by looking in detail at a number of central results from molecular biology and showing that none of them supports reduction because (1) their basic predicates have multiple realizations, (2) their chemical realization is context-sensitive and (3) their explanations often presuppose biological facts rather than eliminate them. I then consider the heuristic and confirmational implications of irreducibility and (...)
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  • Concepts, Kinds and Cognitive Development.Frank C. Keil - 1989 - MIT Press.
    In Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development, Frank C. Keil provides a coherent account of how concepts and word meanings develop in children, adding to our understanding of the representational nature of concepts and word meanings at all ages. Keil argues that it is impossible to adequately understand the nature of conceptual representation without also considering the issue of learning. Weaving together issues in cognitive development, philosophy, and cognitive psychology, he reconciles numerous theories, backed by empirical evidence from nominal kinds studies, (...)
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  • Theory change in science: strategies from Mendelian genetics.Lindley Darden - 1991 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    This innovative book focuses on the development of the gene theory as a case study in scientific creativity.
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  • Towards a metaphorical biology.R. C. Paton - 1992 - Biology and Philosophy 7 (3):279-294.
    The metaphorical nature of biological language is examined and the use of metaphors for providing the linguistic context in which similarities and differences are made is described. Certain pervasive metaphors which are characterised by systemic properties are noted, and in order to provide some focus to the study, systemic metaphors associated with machine, text and organism are discussed. Other systemic metaphors such as society and circuit are also reported. Some details concerning interrelations between automaton and organism are presented in the (...)
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  • (2 other versions)Metaphor and Religious Language.Janet Martin Soskice - 1985 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 49 (2):339-339.
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  • (2 other versions)Metaphor and Religious Language.Janet Martin Soskice - 1985 - Religious Studies 23 (2):297-300.
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  • Theory of integrative levels.James K. Feibleman - 1954 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 5 (17):59-66.
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  • Self-Modifying Systems In Biology And Cognitive Science: A New Framework For Dynamics, Information.G. Kampis - forthcoming - And Complexity.
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  • Classes and collections: Principles of organization in the learning of hierarchical relations.Ellen M. Markman, Marjorie S. Horton & Alexander G. McLanahan - 1980 - Cognition 8 (3):227-241.
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  • Neurodynamic system theory: Scope and limits.Péter Érdi - 1993 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 14 (2).
    This paper proposes that neurodynamic system theory may be used to connect structural and functional aspects of neural organization. The paper claims that generalized causal dynamic models are proper tools for describing the self-organizing mechanism of the nervous system. In particular, it is pointed out that ontogeny, development, normal performance, learning, and plasticity, can be treated by coherent concepts and formalism. Taking into account the self-referential character of the brain, autopoiesis, endophysics and hermeneutics are offered as elements of a poststructuralist (...)
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