title: Closure, Function, Emergence, Semiosis and Life: The Same Idea? Reflections on the Concrete and the Abstract in Theoretical Biology.
creator: Emmeche, Claus
subject: Theoretical Biology
subject: Epistemology
subject: Philosophy of Language
subject: Metaphysics
subject: Philosophy of Science
description: In this note some epistemological problems in general theories about living systems are considered; in particular, the question of hidden connections between different areas of experience, such as folk biology and scientific biology, and hidden connections between central concepts of theoretical biology, such as function, semiosis, closure and life.
date: 2000-05
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/187/1/2000a.Closure.html
identifier:   Emmeche, Claus  (2000) Closure, Function, Emergence, Semiosis and Life: The Same Idea? Reflections on the Concrete and the Abstract in Theoretical Biology.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/187/