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  • Evolutionary Systems

    Biological and Epistemological Perspectives on Selection and Self-Organization

    Edited by G. Vijver, Stanley N. Salthe, M. Delpos ...
    The three well known revolutions of the past centuries - the Copernican, the Darwinian and the Freudian - each in their own way had a deflating and mechanizing effect on the position of humans in nature. They opened up a richness of disillusion: earth acquired a more modest place in the universe, the human body and mind became products of a long material evolutionary history, and human reason, ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • New Perspectives on Cybernetics

    Self-Organization, Autonomy and Connectionism

    Edited by G. Vijver ...
    Series Book 220 - Synthese Library
    Gertrudis Van de Vijver· Seminar of Logic and Epistemology University of Ghent Before being classified under the fashionable denominators of complexity and chaos, self-organization and autonomy were intensely inquired into in the cybernetic tradition. Despite all rejections that cybernetics has gone through in the second half of this century, today its importance is more and more recognized. Its ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Selforganization

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    Edited by W. Krohn, Gunter Küppers, H. Nowotny ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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  • Cultural Phylogenetics

    Concepts and Applications in Archaeology

    Edited by Larissa Mendoza Straffon ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the potential and challenges of implementing evolutionary phylogenetic methods in archaeological research, by discussing key concepts and presenting concrete applications of these approaches.The volume is divided into two parts: The first covers the theoretical and conceptual implications of using evolution-based models in the sociocultural domain, illustrates the sorts of ... Read more

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  • Methods and Finance

    A Unifying View on Finance, Mathematics and Philosophy

    Edited by Emiliano Ippoliti, Ping Chen ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on finance, with a special focus on stock markets. It presents new methodologies for analyzing stock markets’ behavior and discusses theories and methods of finance from different angles, such as the mathematical, physical and philosophical ones. The book, which aims at philosophers and economists alike, represents a rare yet important attempt to ... Read more

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  • The Scopes Monkey Trial

    by Randy Moore, William McComas ...
    Series series Images of America
    The 1925 case against high school coach and science teacher John Scopes, arrested for teaching evolution in defiance of a Tennessee state law, was America's original "Trial of the Century." The proceedings began as a publicity stunt but grew into a landmark event in the nation's history. The trial featured three-time presidential candidate and fundamentalist leader William Jennings Bryan, who ... Read more

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  • A Theory of Immediate Awareness

    Self-Organization and Adaptation in Natural Intelligence

    by M. Estep ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is multi- and interdisciplinary in both scope and content. It draws upon philosophy, the neurosciences, psychology, computer science, and engineering in efforts to resolve fundamental issues about the nature of immediate awareness. Approximately the first half of the book is addressed to historical approaches to the question whether or not there is such a thing as immediate awareness, ... Read more

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  • Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior

    A Unifying View of Life, Function, Form, Mismatches and Trends

    by Rui Diogo ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book proposes a new way to think about evolution. The author carefully brings together evidence from diverse fields of science. In the process, he bridges the gaps between many different--and usually seen as conflicting--ideas to present one integrative theory named ONCE, which stands for Organic Nonoptimal Constrained Evolution. The author argues that evolution is mainly driven by the ... Read more

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  • General Pontryagin-Type Stochastic Maximum Principle and Backward Stochastic Evolution Equations in Infinite Dimensions

    by Xu Zhang, Qi Lü ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The classical Pontryagin maximum principle (addressed to deterministic finite dimensional control systems) is one of the three milestones in modern control theory. The corresponding theory is by now well-developed in the deterministic infinite dimensional setting and for the stochastic differential equations. However, very little is known about the same problem but for controlled stochastic ... Read more

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    by Ladislav Kováč ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
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  • Nonlinear Vibration with Control

    For Flexible and Adaptive Structures

    by David Wagg, Simon Neild ...
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