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La esencia de la vida: Enfoques clásicos y contemporáneos de filosofía y ciencia

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La vida, cuando se intenta explicar, es indefinible, y sin embargo conocer su origen y naturaleza es una inquietud milenaria del hombre. Si bien la ciencia contemporánea ha ampliado nuestro entendimiento acerca de la complejidad de la vida natural, al tiempo que ha logrado construir varios ejemplos de sistemas de vida artificial, la respuesta sobre qué es la vida aún está lejana. Los textos reunidos en este volumen abordan tres interrogantes: ¿qué características poseen todos los seres vivos?, ¿qué descripciones y teorías definen mejor la esencia de la vida? y ¿cómo construir y evaluar de manera adecuada los nuevos planteamientos acerca de su naturaleza?

870 pages, Paperback

First published July 30, 2006

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Mark A. Bedau

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Mark A. Bedau is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Reed College, Adjunct Professor of Systems Science at Portland State University, and Editor-in-Chief of the MIT Press journal Artificial Life.

Mark A. Bedau is an American philosopher who works in the field of artificial life. He is the son of the philosopher Hugo Bedau (1926–2012).

Bedau teaches philosophy at Reed College. He is also the Co-Founder of the European Center for Living Technology (ECLT) and Visiting Professor, Ph.D. Program in Life Sciences: Foundations and Ethics, European School of Molecular Medicine. Bedau is also the editor of the Artificial Life Journal.

He has been the COO of Protolife, a biotechnology start-up based in Venice, Italy.

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