Bernard Feltz & Marc Crommelinck 
Self-organization and Emergence in Life Sciences [PDF ebook] 

I – Scientific Approach.- The Complex Adaptative Systems Approach to Biology.- Emergence and Reductionism: from the Game of Life to Science of Life.- Formalizing Emergence: the Natural After-Life of Artificial Life.- Analysis and Synthesis of Regulator Networks in Terms of Feedback Circuits.- Properties Emerging from Sensorimotor Interfaces: Interaction Between Experimentation and Modeling in Neurosciences.- Neuronal Synchrony and Cognitive Functions.- About Biology and Subjectivity in Psychiatry.- Self-Organization and Meaning in Immunology.- II – Historic Approach.- Kant and the Intuitions of Self-Organization.- On a ‘Mathematical Neo-Aristotelism’ in Leibniz.- ‘Essential Force’ and ‘Formative Force’: Models for Epigenesis in the 18th Century.- From Logic to Self-Organization–Learning about Complexity.- The Concept of Emergence in the XIXth Century: from Natural Theology to Biology.- Artificial Life and the Sciences of Complexity: History and Future.- Self-Organization in Second-Order Cybernetics: Deconstruction or Reconstruction of Complexity.- III – Epistemological and Conceptual Approaches.- Teleology in Self-Organizing Systems.- Phenomenology and Self-Organization.- A Role for Mathematical Models in Formalizing Self-Organizing systems.- Explanation and Causality in Self-Organizing Systems.- Self-Organization, Selection and Emergence in the Theories of Evolution.