Self-organization and Emergence in Life Sciences

List of Contributors. Introduction; Bernard Feltz, Marc Crommelinck and Philippe Goujon. I. Scientific Approach. A. Self-Organization and Biology: General Standpoints. The Complex Adaptative Systems Approach to Biology; Gérard Weisbuch. Emergence and Reductionism: from the Game of Life to Science of Life; Vincent Bauchau. Formalizing Emergence: the Natural After-Life of Artificial Life; Hugues Bersini. B. Self-Organization and Biology: Thematic Standpoints. Analysis and Synthesis of Regulator Networks in Terms of Feedback Circuits; René Thomas. Properties Emerging from Sensorimotor Interfaces. Interaction Between Experimentation and Modeling in Neurosciences; Philippe Lefèvre, Cheng Tu, Marcus Missal and Marc Crommelinck. Neuronal Synchrony and Cognitive Functions; Francisco Varela. About Biology and Subjectivity in Psychiatry; Philippe Meire. Self-Organization and Meaning in Immunology; Henri Atlan and Irun Cohen. II. Historic Approach. A. Early Philosophical Conceptualizations. Kant and the Intuitions of Self-Organization; Gertrudis Van de Vijver. On a 'Mathematical Neo-Aristotelism' in Leibniz; Laurence Bouquiaux. 'Essential Force' and 'Formative Force': Models for Epigenesis in the 18th Century; François Duchesneau. From Logic to Self-Organization. Learning about Complexity; Philippe Goujon. The Concept of Emergence in the XIXth Century: from Natural Theology to Biology; Paul Mengal. B. Contemporary Origins. Artificial Life and the Sciences of Complexity: History and Future; Jean-Claude Heudin. Self-Organization in Second-Order Cybernetics: Deconstruction or Reconstruction of Complexity; Pierre Livet. III. Epistemological and Conceptual Approaches. A. Teleology andIntentionality.Teleology in Self-Organizing Systems; Robert Brandon. Phenomenology and Self-Organization; Marc Maesschalck and Valérie Kokoszka. B. Explanation. A Role for Mathematical Models in Formalizing Self-Organizing Systems; Paul Thompson. Explanation and Causality in Self-Organizing Systems; Robert C. Richardson. Self-Organization, Selection and Emergence in the Theories of Evolution; Bernard Feltz.