Toward a Special and General Theory of Autevolution
John Jay Kineman
1991/1997
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Annotated Table of Contents
- Abstract
- Foreword (Foreword to this edition
of the paper)
- Introduction (the 1988 Chapman
conference on the Gaia hypothesis, strong and weak Gaia)
- The Gaia worldview (metaphor
and the need for theoretical foundations)
- The basis for Autevolution (worldview
and founding assumptions)
- Epistemology-I (a conceptual
model for science, information, and evolution)
- Figure 1 (punctuated stability
model based on paradox)
- Epistemology-II (proposed criteria
for evaluating worldviews)
- Discussion-I (teleology and
the origin of novelty)
- Discussion-II (principle of
uncertainty in ecology and evolution)
- Discussion-III (cultural perspectives)
- Conclusions (some of the main
points)
- Footnotes (clarification of
terms and concepts)
- References (a useful bibliography
through 1991)
- Chapter references (table of
contents from Scientists on Gaia)
Revised and reprinted from: Kineman, John
Jay. 1991. "Gaia: hypothesis or worldview?" Paper delivered
at the American Geophysical Union annual Chapman Conference, panel
on epistemology, March, 1988, San Diego, California. Chapter 7
In: Schneider, S. H., and P. J. Boston (eds). 1991. Scientists
on Gaia. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 433p.
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