Philosophy Now Forum

I think the conclusion that Autopoiesis is a recent descendant of an older tradition is a little hasty. It is certainly not Intelligent Design by another name, and as Prof. Asma quite rightly points out, it has nothing to hide. The central principle of autopoiesis , as conceived by Maturana and Vare...

Many thanks for the excellent and the concise article on Tarski. It seems to me, though, that there is no need for a meta-language. which is only required because of the adherence to a syntactic/semantic approach. This is fine for context-free languages, such as the Turing/Church model and it deriva...