Radical Ecology in the Face of the Anthropocene Extinction : A New and Urgent Philosophy for Complexity in the Social Sciences (Paperback)

Introduction

1 Reforming the philosophy of the Enlightenment: Chance as a second-order phenomenon and post-humanism

2 Auto-eco-organisation as ontology: The sciences of emergence

3 Auto-exo-reference as epistemology: A biosemiotics approach

4 Materialist neo-Darwinism and its discontents: Debates in the modern synthesis; the ecology of physical and semantic causality; end-directedness and its consequences for an ecological social science

5 The evolutionary ecology of the social: The adaptive unconscious, the mammalian emotions, the significance of approximation end-directed dynamics; social systems as differentiated, adaptive dynamics

6 Summary of Part 1 and methodology for Part 2

7 Three case studies

8 The Anthropocene extinction: Explicit evidence and implicit epistemology

9 Global governance and its discontents "in practice": Radically incompatible perspectives: political, economic, cultural and scientific conflicts

10 In place of a conclusion: Imperatives and ambiguities