Recursivity and Contingency: Lifestyle and the Mercy Watson series

and the Mercy Watson series

Karl Koenig

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her father's military career meant she bounced around as a kid–fighting off bullies because she was tall and loud

Recursivity and Contingency: Lifestyle and the Mercy Watson seriesThis book employs recursivity and contingency as two principle concepts to investigate into the relation between nature and technology, machine and organism, system and freedom. It reconstructs a trajectory of thought from an Organic condition of thinking elaborated by Kant, passing by the philosophy of nature (Schelling and Hegel), to the 20th century Organicism (Bertalanffy, Needham, Whitehead, Wiener among others) and Organology (Bergson,