creators_name: Emmeche, Claus
type: journalp
datestamp: 2000-05-31
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:43
metadata_visibility: show
title: Closure, Function, Emergence, Semiosis and Life: The Same Idea? Reflections on the Concrete and the Abstract in Theoretical Biology.
ispublished: pub
subjects: bio-theory
subjects: phil-epist
subjects: phil-lang
subjects: phil-metaphys
subjects: phil-sci
full_text_status: public
keywords: closure, emergence, emergent properties, life, experiential knowledge, concept of function, biofunction, functionality, semiosis, biosemiotics, prototypes, self-organization, autopoiesis, autocatalysis, semantic closure, theoretical biology, reification, abstraction, generality, scientism.
abstract: In this note some epistemological problems in general theories about living systems are considered; in particular, the question of hidden connections between different areas of experience, such as folk biology and scientific biology, and hidden connections between central concepts of theoretical biology, such as function, semiosis, closure and life.
date: 2000-05
date_type: published
publication: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
volume: 901
pagerange: 187-197
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Emmeche, Claus  (2000) Closure, Function, Emergence, Semiosis and Life: The Same Idea? Reflections on the Concrete and the Abstract in Theoretical Biology.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/187/1/2000a.Closure.html