
Growing Explanations
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Part I Mathematics, physics, and engineering
Elementary particles? `
1. Mirror symmetry: persons, values, and objects / Peter Galison 23
Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
2. Chaos, disorder, and mixing: a new fin-de-siecle image of science? / Amy Dahan Dalmedico 67
3. Forms of explanation in the catastrophe theory of Rene Thjom: topology, morphogenesis, and structuralism / David Aubin 95
Coping with complexity in technology
4. From Boeing to Berkeley: civil engineers, the cold war, and the origins of finite element analysis / Ann Johnson 133
5. Fuzzyfying the world: social practices of showing the properties of fuzzy logic / Claude Rosental 159
Part II The organism, the self, and (artificial) life
Self-Organization
6. Marrying the premodern to the postmodern: computers and organisms after World War II / Evelyn Fox Keller 181
Immunology
7. Immunology and the enigma of selfhood / Alfred I. Tauber 201
8. Immunology of AIDS: growning explanations and developing instruments / Ilana Lowy 222
Artificial Life
9. Artificial life support: some nodes in the Alife ribotype / Richard Doyle 251
10. The word for world is computer: simulating second natures in artificial life / Stefan Helmreich 275
11. Constructing and explaining emergence in artificial life: on paradigms, ontodefinitions, and general knowledge in biology / Claus Emmeche 301
Afterword 327
Contributors 333
Index 337
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