Interdependence : : Biology and Beyond / / Kriti Sharma.
From biology to economics to information theory, the theme of interdependence is in the air, framing our experiences of all sorts of everyday phenomena. Indeed, the network may be the ascendant metaphor of our time. Yet precisely because the language of interdependence has become so commonplace as t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Meaning Systems
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Taking Interdependence Seriously
- 1. It Depends: Contingent Existence
- 2. What Do Objects Depend On? Physical Substance, Matter, and the External World
- 3. What Does Sensing Depend On? Transduction, Energy, and the Meeting of Worlds
- 4. What Do Organisms Depend On? Bodies, Selves, and Internal Worlds
- 5. What Does Order Depend On? Patterns, Gaps, and the Known World
- Conclusion: Life as We Know It Notes
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Acknowledgments: What Does This Book Depend On?