Understanding origins

An introduction

Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Francisco Varela

1-25

Origins

a view from the literature

René Girard

27-42

Supplement to apocalypse

Girard and Derrida

Andrew J. McKenna

45-76

A morphogenetic hypothesis on the closure of post-structuralism

Paul Dumouchel

77-90

Girard and the origin of culture

Paisley Livingston

91-110

The origin of money

André Orléan

113-143

Primitive money, modern money

Jean-Joseph Goux

145-149

Origins of order in evolution

self-organization and selection

Stuart A. Kauffman

153-181

Optimization in question

John Dupré

183-190

Incorporating origins into evolutionary theory

Daniel R. Brooks

191-212

The evolution of generic forms

Brian C. Goodwin

213-226

Is phylogeny recapitulating ontogeny?

Susan Oyama

227-232

Whence perceptual meaning?

a cartography of current ideas

Francisco Varela

235-263

Perception, connectionism, and cognitive science

Christine Skarda

265-271

The original and the copy

Umberto Eco

273-303