Morphogenesis and Individuation

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 issu

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Alessandro Sarti Federico Montanari Francesco Galofaro Editors

Morphogenesis and Individuation

Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis Series editor Alessandro Sarti, CAMS Center for Mathematics, CNRS-EHESS, Paris, France e-mail: [email protected]

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11247

Alessandro Sarti Federico Montanari Francesco Galofaro •

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Editors Alessandro Sarti CAMS Center for Mathematics CNRS-EHESS Paris France

Francesco Galofaro CUBE, Università di Bologna Bologna Italy

Federico Montanari

Università di Urbino Urbino Italy

ISSN 2195-1934 ISBN 978-3-319-05100-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-05101-7

ISSN 2195-1942 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-05101-7 (eBook)

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Foreword

This volume, ‘Morphogenesis and Individuation’, aims to build on the categories and conceptual tools used in the morphogenetic approaches through a discussion of Gilbert Simondon’s work. Simondon’s philosophical perspectives on science were further developed in René Thom’s mature analysis. Key-concepts as informati