The Life and Behavior of Living Organisms: A General Theory
Autor Elliott Jaquesen Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 dec 2001 – vârsta până la 17 ani
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780275975012
ISBN-10: 0275975010
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0275975010
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Notă biografică
ELLIOTT JAQUES is Visiting Research Professor in Management Sciences at George Washington University. He has been honored by awards from the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Armed Services and the Consulting Psychoanalytical Division of the American Psychological Association. He is the author of 21 previous books.
Cuprins
PrefaceIntroductionWhat Is Life? OverviewA Half Century of Findings on Work, Complexity, and CapabilityWork as Goal-directed Choice (laboro ergo sum)Complexity and Capability in Living OrganismsLaying the GroundworkAwareness, Signaling, Language and Other Basic ConceptsMinds, Bodies, Reductionism, and Systems TheoryPotential and Applied Capability Throughout the Living KingdomLife in the Pre-Linguistic WorldThe Choice Making Functions of All Living OrganismsThe Whole Organism and Its PartsThe Organism in ActionReality in the Sensible World as Cause-and-effect TestingThe Language-Suffused World of HumansThe Evolutionary Emergence of Homo Sapiens, with Language and ConsciousnessThe Fruits of EvolutionThe Spread of Homo Sapiens Across the WorldThe Language Suffused World: Prometheus, Pandora, and the UnicornsModern Alchemy and the Disruption of Capitalist DemocracyTime, Science, and FreedomToward a Science-based Art of Social OrderingValues for a Living World: Freedom and Constraint, and Mutual Trust and MoralsSome Retrospective MusingsGlossaryBibliographyIndex