Understanding origins

Understanding Origin: An Introduction J.-P. Dupuy, F.J. Varela. Origins: A View from Literature R. Girard. Part I: Violence: The Origin of Social Order. Supplement to Apocalypse: Girard and Derrida A.J. McKenna. A Morphogenetic Hypothesis P. Dumouchel. Girard and the Origin of Culture P. Livingston. Part II: The Origin of Money: Symbols and Texts. The Origin of Money A. Orlean. Primitive Money, Modern Money J.-J. Goux. Part III: Evolution and the Diversity of Life. Origins of Order in Evolution S.A. Kauffman. Optimization in Question J. Dupre. Incorporating Origins into Evolutionary Theory D.R. Brooks. The Evolution of Generic Forms B. Goodwin. Is Phylogeny Recapitulating Ontogeny? S. Oyama. Part IV: Perception and the Origin of Cognition. Whence Perceptual Meaning? A Cartography of Current Ideas F.J. Varela. Perception, Connectionism, and Cognitive Science C.A. Skarda. The Original and the Copy U. Eco. Appendix. Index

Cognition · Cognitive science · Connectionism · Diversity (politics · Epistemology · Evolutionary psychology · Meaning (existential · Order (exchange · Perception · Sociology · Anthropology · Psychology · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy · Life, origin · Social structure · Philosophy