Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Note on Sources | p. xiii |
Introduction to Complexity | p. 1 |
Is Science Inhuman? An Essay on Free Necessity (2002) | p. 32 |
Self-Organization | |
Intentional Self-Organization: Emergence and Reduction, Toward a Physical Theory of Intentionality (1998) | p. 65 |
Noise as a Principle of Self-Organization (1972/1979) | p. 95 |
The Intuition of the Complex and Its Theorizations (1991) | p. 114 |
Organisms, Finalisms, Programs, Machines | |
The Genetic Program (1999) | p. 145 |
Underdetermination of Theories by Facts (1991) | p. 172 |
Internal Purposes, Vitalism, and Complex Systems (1991) | p. 177 |
Ectogenesis and Reproductive Cloning: Reasons for and Against (2005) | p. 192 |
Weak Reductionism (1986) | p. 199 |
Spinoza | |
The Spinoza Path (2005) | p. 209 |
Immanent Causality: A Spinozist Viewpoint on Evolution and the Theory of Action (1998) | p. 216 |
Spinozist Neurophysiology (2007) | p. 237 |
Knowledge, Glory, and "On Human Dignity" (2007) | p. 243 |
Judaism, Determinism, and Rationalities | |
Sparks of Randomness (1999) | p. 253 |
Nature's Ultimate Trick: The Parable of the Divine Intrigues ('Alilot) (1999) | p. 261 |
Mysticism and Rationality (1986) | p. 269 |
Souls and Body in Genesis (1982) | p. 284 |
Israel in Question (1975) | p. 290 |
The Self, the Person, the "I" (2004) | p. 312 |
Fabricating the Living | |
Golems (1999) | p. 331 |
The Mother Machine (2005) | p. 342 |
Human Cloning: Biological Possibilities, Social Impossibilities (1999) | p. 351 |
Possibility in Development (1991) | p. 366 |
Ethics | |
Does Life Exist? (1999) | p. 375 |
The Knowledge of Ignorance (1991) | p. 384 |
The Fraternal Utopia (2005) | p. 390 |
To Teach Virtue (1991) | p. 406 |
The Center of the Universe and the Domain of Ethics (1991) | p. 411 |
Pleasure, Pain, and the Levels of Ethics (1995) | p. 417 |
Bibliography | p. 443 |
Index | p. 459 |
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