Henning B.G., Kauffman S.A., Scarfe A.C. (eds.) Beyond mechanism: putting life back into biology

Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013. — 474 p.Foreword: Evolution Beyond Newton, Darwin, and Entailing Law
Introduction: On a "Life-Blind Spot" in Neo-Darwainism's Mechanistic Metaphysical Lens
Complexity, Systems Theory, and Emergence
Complex Systems Dynamics in Evolution and Emergence Processes
Why Emergence Matters
On the Incompatibility of the Neo-Darwinian Hypothesis With Systems-Theoretical Explanations of Biological Development
Process-First Ontology
Ordinal Pluralism as Metaphysics for Biology
Biosemiotics
Why Do We Need a Semiotic Understanding of Life?
The Irreducibility of Life to Mentality: Biosemiotics or Emergence?
Homeostasis, Thermodynamics, and Symbiogenesis
Biology's Second Law: Homeostasis, Purpose and Desire
"Wind at Life's Back" -Toward a Naturalistic, Whiteheadian Teleology: Symbiogenesis and the Second Law
Of Termites and Men: On the Ontology of Collective Individuals
The Baldwin Effect, Behavior, and Evolution
The Baldwin Effect in an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
On the Ramifications of the Theory of Organic Selection for Environmental and Evolutionary Ethics
Autogen, Teleology, and Teleodynamics
Teleology Versus Mechanism in Biology: Beyond Self-Organization
Teleodynamics: A Neo-Naturalistic Conception of Organismic Teleology
Epigenetics
Epigenetics: Toward An Inclusive Concept of Evolution
Epigenetics, Soft Inheritance, Mechanistic Metaphysics, and Bioethics
Organism and Mechanism
From Organicism to Mechanism-and Half-Way Back?
Machines and Organisms: The Rise and Fall of a Conflict
About the Contributors