Causality, Meaningful Complexity and Embodied Cognition
Arturo Carsetti According to molecular Biology, true invariance (life) can exist only within the framework of ongoing autonomous morphogenesis and vice versa. With respect to this secret dialectics, life and cognition appear as indissolubly interlinked. I
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THEORY AND DECISION LIBRARY
General Editor: Julian Nida-Rümelin (Universita¨t Mu¨nchen) Series A: Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences Series B: Mathematical and Statistical Methods Series C: Game Theory, Mathematical Programming and Operations Research SERIES A: PHILOSOPHY AND METHODOLOGY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES VOLUME 46
Assistant Editor: Martin Rechenauer (Universita¨t Mu¨nchen) Editorial Board: Raymond Boudon (Paris), Mario Bunge (Montréal ), Isaac Levi (New York), Richard V. Mattessich (Vancouver), Bertrand Munier (Cachan), Amartya K. Sen (Cambridge), Brian Skyrms (Irvine), Wolfgang Spohn (Konstanz) Scope: This series deals with the foundations, the general methodology and the criteria, goals and purpose of the social sciences. The emphasis in the Series A will be on well-argued, thoroughly analytical rather than advanced mathematical treatments. In this context, particular attention will be paid to game and decision theory and general philosophical topics from mathematics, psychology and economics, such as game theory, voting and welfare theory, with applications to political science, sociology, law and ethics.
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Editor Prof. A. Carsetti Università di Roma - Tor Vergata Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Via Columbia, 1 00133 Roma Italy
ISBN 978-90-481-3528-8 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3529-5 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3529-5 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010921000 c Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Cover design: Boekhorst Design b.v. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Acknowledgements
This book too like others I have edited, owes its existence to many sources. First of all I would like to express my deep appreciation to Julian Nida R¨umelin. He encouraged me to edit this book and I have benefited from some discussions with him on the occasion of the International Colloquium on “Causality, Meaningful Complexity and Knowledge Construction” (Rome, 2008). I am very grateful to Charles Erkelens who examined and approved the first project of the book. I am also grateful to Elisabeth Leinfellner for her invaluable help in introducing me in the art of “shepherd” the different chapters in a volume. I am indebted to my collaborators Andrea Cataldi, Pia’t Lam and Enrica Vizzinisi for their help at the editorial level. I would like, in particular, to thank Lucy Fleet of Springer for her editorial comments and suggestions which contr
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