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Anti-chance : a reply to Monod's chances and necessity /

Anti-Chance: A Reply to Monod's Chance and Necessity is a critique of Jacques Monod's essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology. It explores the concepts of chance and necessity, central themes of Monod's work, and specifically whether life is the result of coincidence of dive...

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Main Authors: Schoffeniels, Ernest. (Author)
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Group Author: Reid, B.L. (Translator)
Published: Pergamon Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford ; New York :
Publication Dates: 1976.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
French
Edition: 1st English ed.
Series: Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering, and social studies
Subjects:
Monod, Jacques > Chance and necessity.
Monod, Jacques. > Hasard et la ne cessite
Biology > Philosophy.
Biology.
Philosophy.
Biologie > Philosophie.
SCIENCE > Biology. > Biology.
Biology > Philosophical perspectives > Monod, Jacques > Hasard et la ne cessite Critical studies
Electronic books.
Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080210087
Summary: Anti-Chance: A Reply to Monod's Chance and Necessity is a critique of Jacques Monod's essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology. It explores the concepts of chance and necessity, central themes of Monod's work, and specifically whether life is the result of coincidence of diverse independent chains of causality or, on the contrary, whether it obeys the more fundamental concept of chance as proposed by the Danish School of physicists. Questions such as the chance or the inevitability of it all, the sites and sizes of the knowledge gaps and as to whether they will be filled with physics.
Item Description: Translation of L'anti-hasard.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xix, 123 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781483135892
1483135896
Index Number: QH331
CLC: Q-0
Contents: Front Cover; Anti-Chance: A Reply to Monod's Chance and Necessity; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; FOREWORD TO THE ENGLISH EDITION; PREFACE TO THE FIRST FRENCH EDITION; PREFACE TO THE SECOND FRENCH EDITION; CHAPTER 1. THE AIM AND THE RESULT; CHAPTER 2. THE PROBABILITIES OF CHANCE; FIRST SOLUTION; SECOND SOLUTION; THIRD SOLUTION; CHAPTER 3. THERMODYNAMICS AND BIOLOGICAL ORDER; THE CREATION OF ORDER BY FLUCTUATIONS; CHAPTER 4. THE BASIS FOR A THEORETICAL BIOLOGY; CHAPTER 5. GREAT INVENTIONS; CHAPTER 6. THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF INSTINCT; THE HEBIOCHEMICAL CONTINUUM; ECOMONES; PHEROMONES.
Chapter 7. speech and consciousnesschapter 8. cybernetics and biology; elementary propositions of cybernetics; organisms as cybernetic systems; chapter 9. the structure of chance variation of information in a biological structure; fi ability of biological structures; evolution of biological structures; deterministic mechanism of evolution; chapter 10. stupid bets; appendix: establishment of a steric chart; calculation of energies; international conventions; treatment of data; impossible or improbable conformations; permissible configurations; experimental confirmation; conclusions.

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