Biophilosophy Analytic and Holistic Perspectives - Sattler, Rolf.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1986)
Three kinds of reduction: ontological, epistemological and methodological. Emergence. No-thingness. Derivability and connectability. Replacement instead of reduction. Perspectivism. Compositionism -- 9.5 Machine Theory of Life - Two meanings. The computational metaphor -- 9.6 Organicism - Organizing relations. Directiveness. Historicity. Autonomy of biological theory -- 9.7 What is Life? - Monotypic, polytypic, and "fuzzy" definitions. Limitations of definitions. Life as direct experience. Oneness -- 9.8 The Mind-Body Problem - Statement of the problem. Several different approaches -- 9.9 Summary -- 10 World Hypotheses (World Views) and Truth -- 10.1 Introduction - The relevance of world hypotheses (world views) -- 10.2 Pepper's Seven World Hypotheses -- 10.2.1 Formism -- 10.2.2 Mechanism -- 10.2.3 Contextualism -- 10.2.4 Organicism -- 10.2.5 Modern Biology in Relation to the Above Four World Hypotheses -- 10.2.6 The Generating-substance Hypothesis -- 10.2.7 Animism -- 10.2.8 Mysticism -- 10.3 Truth -- 10.4 Summary -- Epilogue: On the Importance of Living -- References.
Keywords: Life sciences; Medicine; Life Sciences, general; Biomedicine, general