Organism and the Origins of Self
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
1991.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1991. |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3406-4 |
Table of Contents:
- I: Historical Perspectives
- Introduction: Speculations Concerning the Origins of the Self
- Editor's Comments to Löwy
- The Immunological Construction of the Self
- II: The Immune / Cognitive Self
- Editor's Comments to Varela, Chernyak and Tauber
- Organism: A Meshwork of Selfless Selves
- The Dialectical Self: Immunology's Contribution
- Editor's Comments to Root-Bernstein
- Self, Nonself, and the Paradoxes of Autoimmunity
- III: Evolution of the Self
- Editor's Comments to Foster and Sarkar
- Directed Mutation in Escherichia coli: Theory and Mechanisms
- Lamarck contre Darwin, Reduction versus Statistics: Conceptual Issues in the Controversy over Directed Mutagenesis in Bacteria
- Editorial Comments to Sober by Sarkar
- Organisms, Individuals, and Units of Selection
- Editor's Comments to Williamson
- Sequential Chimeras
- Editor's Comments to Gilbert
- The Role of Embryonic Induction in Creating Self
- Epilogue: The Uncut Self.