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La manifestation de soi : éléments d'une critique philosophique de l'utilitarisme.
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ISBN: 9782707164469 2707164461 Year: 2010 Publisher: Paris Découverte


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Le vivant et sa naturalisation : le problème du naturalisme en biologie chez Husserl et le jeune Merleau-Ponty.
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ISBN: 9789400718135 9789400718142 9400718136 9400718144 9786613453327 1283453320 Year: 2012 Volume: 202 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer

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Ce volume propose une étude articulée de Husserl et de Merleau-Ponty qui prend comme perspective la dimension épistémologique de leur philosophie relativement à la biologie. Chacun à sa manière, ils se sont penchés sur le statut ambigu de la biologie et sur l’épineuse question du naturalisme, à savoir : dans quelle mesure les êtres vivants peuvent-ils être appréhendés comme des ensembles de processus physiques et chimiques ? La confrontation de leurs deux contributions à la question offre un éclairage qui a conservé toute sa pertinence, alors que le développement de la biologie moléculaire et des neurosciences contemporaines a amené un retour du paradigme naturaliste en biologie. L’étude débouche sur une mise en perspective avec la théorie biologique de l’autopoïèse élaborée par F. Varela et H. Maturana. L’enjeu final est de proposer une théorie de la biologie qui respecte son irréductibilité tout en tenant compte du rôle de plus en plus important que les approches physico-chimiques jouent dans notre compréhension des êtres vivants.


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The nonlinear world : conceptual analysis and phenomenology
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ISBN: 4431540288 4431540296 1283909960 4431546677 Year: 2012 Publisher: Tokyo ; London : Springer,

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The most important characteristic of the “world filled with nonlinearity” is the existence of scale interference: disparate space–time scales interfere with each other. Thus, the effects of unknowable scales invade the world that we can observe directly. This leads to various peculiar phenomena such as chaos, critical phenomena, and complex biological phenomena, among others. Conceptual analysis and phenomenology are the keys to describe and understand phenomena that are subject to scale interference, because precise description of unfamiliar phenomena requires precise concepts and their phenomenological description. The book starts with an illustration of conceptual analysis in terms of chaos and randomness, and goes on to explain renormalization group philosophy as an approach to phenomenology. Then, abduction is outlined as a way to express what we have understood about the world. The book concludes with discussions on how we can approach genuinely complex phenomena, including biological phenomena. The main target of this volume is young people who have just started to appreciate the world seriously. The author also wishes the book to be helpful to those who have been observing the world, but who wish to appreciate it afresh from a different angle.

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Nonlinear theories. --- Phenomenological biology. --- Synergetics. --- Phenomenological biology --- Nonlinear theories --- Synergetics --- Biology --- Philosophy & Religion --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Biology - General --- Atomic Physics --- Philosophy --- Biological phenomenology --- Physics. --- Systems biology. --- Applied mathematics. --- Engineering mathematics. --- Statistical physics. --- Dynamical systems. --- Complexity, Computational. --- Vibration. --- Dynamics. --- Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity. --- Complexity. --- Systems Biology. --- Applications of Mathematics. --- Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control. --- Phenomenology --- System theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Nonlinear problems --- Nonlinearity (Mathematics) --- Calculus --- Mathematical analysis --- Mathematical physics --- Engineering. --- Biological models. --- Mathematics. --- Complex Systems. --- Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems. --- Mathematical statistics --- Cycles --- Mechanics --- Sound --- Math --- Science --- Models, Biological --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Statistical methods --- Computational complexity. --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Statics --- Engineering --- Engineering analysis --- Computational biology --- Bioinformatics --- Biological systems --- Molecular biology --- Complexity, Computational --- Electronic data processing --- Machine theory

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