SELF-ORGANIZATION AND EMERGENCE IN LIFE SCIENCES

1. Part I - Scientific Approach

1. The Complex Adaptative Systems Approach to Biology
Gérard Weisbuch

2. Emergence and Reductionism: from the Game of Life to Science of Life
Vincent Bauchau

3. Formalizing Emergence: the Natural After-Life of Artificial Life
Hugues Bersini

4. Analysis and Synthesis of Regulator Networks in Terms of Feedback Circuits
René Thomas

5. Properties Emerging from Sensorimotor Interfaces: Interaction Between Experimentation and Modeling in Neurosciences
Philippe Lefévre, Cheng Tu, Marcus Missal, Marc Crommelinck

6. Neuronal Synchrony and Cognitive Functions
Francisco Varela

7. About Biology and Subjectivity in Psychiatry
Philippe Meire

8. Self-Organization and Meaning in Immunology
Henri Atlan, Irun Cohen

2. Part II - Historic Approach

9. Kant and the Intuitions of Self-Organization
Gertrudis Van de Vijver

10. On a "Mathematical Neo-Aristotelism" in Leibniz
Laurence Bouquiaux

11. "Essential Force" and "Formative Force": Models for Epigenesis in the 18th Century
François Duchesneau

12. From Logic to Self-Organization–Learning about Complexity
Philippe Goujon

13. The Concept of Emergence in the XIXth Century: from Natural Theology to Biology
Paul Mengal

14. Artificial Life and the Sciences of Complexity: History and Future
Jean-Claude Heudin

15. Self-Organization in Second-Order Cybernetics: Deconstruction or Reconstruction of Complexity
Pierre Livet

3. Part III - Epistemological and Conceptual Approaches

16. Teleology in Self-Organizing Systems
Robert N. Brandon

17. Phenomenology and Self-Organization
Marc Maesschalck, Valérie Kokoszka

18. A Role for Mathematical Models in Formalizing Self-Organizing systems
Paul Thompson

19. Explanation and Causality in Self-Organizing Systems
Robert C. Richardson

20. Self-Organization, Selection and Emergence in the Theories of Evolution
Bernard Feltz

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