A Third Window: Natural Life Beyond Newton

Thus far, the dominant paradigms through which modern scientists have viewed nature have been structured primarily around Newtonian and Darwinian approaches. As theoretical ecologist Robert E. Ulanowicz observes in his new work, A Third Window, neither of these models is sufficient for explaining how real change-in the form of creative advance or emergence-takes place in nature.

Robert E. Ulanowicz is professor emeritus with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, Maryland. He was awarded the 2007 Ilya Prigogine Medal from the Wessex Institute and the University of Siena for outstanding research in the field of ecological systems, and he resides with his wife in Gainesville, Florida.

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Two Open Windows on Nature	p. 13
How Can Things Truly Change?	p. 40
How Can Things Persist?	p. 57
Agency in Evolutionary Systems	p. 91
An Ecological Metaphysic	p. 115
The View out the Window	p. 150
Notes	p. 169
References	p. 173
Name Index	p. 185
Subject Index	p. 189
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