Today developmental and evolutionary biologists are focussing renewed attention on the developmental process--those genetic and cellular factors that influence variation in individual body shape or metabolism--in an attempt to better understand how evolutionary trends and patterns within individuals
Morphogenesis and Individuation
β Scribed by Alessandro Sarti, Federico Montanari, Francesco Galofaro (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 227
- Series
- Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This contributed volume aims to reconsider the concept of individuation, clarifying its articulation with respect to contemporary problems in perceptual, neural, developmental, semiotic and social morphogenesis. The authors approach the ontogenetical issue by taking into account the morphogenetic process, involving the concept of individuation proposed by Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze. The target audience primarily comprises experts in the field but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students. The challenge of the genesis and constitution of βunitsβ has always been at the center of philosophical and scientific research. This ontogenetical issue is common to every discipline but it is articulated in different ways: in phenomenology of perception the constitution of perceptual units is at the base of gestalt field theories, in theoretical neuroscience synchronized neural assemblies are considered as correlates of conscious processes, in developmental embryogenesis the constitution of organs is the principle outcome of morphodynamic evolution while in social morphogenesis the constitution of coherent units is common to segmentary, gerarchic and functional differentiation.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
On Substances and Causes Again: Simondonβs Philosophy of Individuation and the Critique of the Metaphysical Roots of Determinism....Pages 3-31
How to Invent a Form: An Inquiry into Gilbert Simondonβs Philosophy of Perception....Pages 33-48
Individuation and Semiogenesis: An Interplay Between Geometric Harmonics and Structural Morphodynamics....Pages 49-73
Morphogenesis Under Construction: Tracing the Process of Individuation Along Physico-Aesthetic Coordinates....Pages 75-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
The Cultural Individuation of Human Language Capacity and the Morphogenesis of Basic Argument-Schemata....Pages 93-110
Through the Looking-Map: Mapping as a Milieu of Individuation....Pages 111-140
On Growth and Form of Narrative Structures....Pages 141-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Semiotic Immanence and Formal Options....Pages 165-171
Structural Syntax and Quantum Computation: A Simondonian Approach....Pages 173-201
Immanence/Imminence. Thinking About Immanence and Individuation....Pages 203-222
β¦ Subjects
Phenomenology; Developmental Biology; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models; Neurosciences; Ontology
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