Teleology and Final Causation in Aristotle and in Contemporary Science
Dialogue 50 (3):511-536 (2011)
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ABSTRACT: With a view to suggesting the possible relevance of Aristotelian thought to current notions of complexity and self-organization, studies Aristotlenard cells, and the theories of Schneider, Kay, and D. SaganDOI
10.1017/s0012217311000527
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