CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1. SALIENCE AND PREGNANCE
A. Introduction: the a priori problem = 1
B. Salience = 3
C. Pregnance = 6
D. Pavlovian conditioning: subjective investment = 6
E. Formalization of subjective pregnances = 8
F. Source forms and individuating pregnances = 9
G. Genetics and pregnance = 10
H. Social animals and communication = 11
I. Sign and gentive = 13
J. Subjective investment and objective investment = 14
K. Intelligible ontologies = 16
Notes and references = 17
CHAPTER 2. LANGUAGE
A. From animal to man = 22
B. Ontogeny of a child's acquisition of language = 23
C. Phylogeny = 24
D. Syntactical structures = 26
E. Pregnance taxonomy = 28
F. Science and magic: causality = 30
G. Causality in modem Science = 33
H. Scientific progress seen as objectivation of subjective pregnance = 35
I. Determinism and contingency = 36
J. Pregnances in cultural life: paradigms and ideologies = 37
Notes and references = 38
CHAPTER 3. THE NOTION OF PREPROGRAM, BIOLOGICAL AND TECHNICAL MORPHOGENESIS
A. General theory of interaction in an intelligible ontology = 41
B. The notion pf preprogram: obstacle in the way of a flow = 43
C. Examples of realization of archetypal singularities = 46
D. Mobile preprograms = 49
E. Mill-wheel theory = 51
F. The Van der Pol-Li$$\acute e$$nard system = 52
G. Technique and nature = 53
H. Duplication of the hysteresis loop in purposeful activities = 55
I. Algebraic models of duplication = 57
J. Genetic constraints and catastrophe theory = 60
K. The instrument as extension of the organ = 61
Notes and references = 64
CHAPTER 4. ANIMAL EMBRYOLOGY
A. General remarks on the morphology of living beings = 66
B. Animal Physiology = 63
C. Dynamics of predation, or the predation loop revisited = 71
D. The generation of animal dynamics = 77
E. The germinal path $$\vec{\alpha O}$$ = 80
F. The problem of plane cycle duplication = 82
G. Vertebrate embryology = 84
1. Amphibian embryology = 84
2. Remarks on smoothing = 88
3. Neurulation and neurogenic induction = 91
4. Symmetries of the vertebrate oganism = 94
5. Cephalization: head-coelome homology = 96
H. Lie groups and their ontogenetic simulation = 98
I. Appendix: Cellular Biology = 99
Notes and references = 102
CHAPTER 5. THE GENERAL PLAN OF ANIMAL ORGANIZATION
A. Introduction = 104
B. Organization and the principle of the "connection of parts" = 105
C. The Cuvier-Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire controversy = 106
D. Some remarks on E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire = 108
E. Epigenetic landscape and law of recapitulation = 109
F. The physiological blastula and space = 113
G. Metamorphosis and dedifterentiation = 114
H. Representation of physiological functions in the PB = 116
I. Oogenesis 0$$\alpha$$ Genetics = 118
J. The main plans of organization = 119
K. The directive gradients of embryology and their modulation: metamerism = 124
1. The gradients of oogenesis = 124
2. Metamerism = 125
3. The case of mollusks = 126
L. Outside milieux and their gradients = 127
M. Insects and vertebrates = 129
N. Pyramidal decussation and the "turn-over", = 133
O. The human brain = 138
P. Conclusion = 139
Notes and references = 140
CHAPTER 6. ARISTOTELIAN DYNAMICS SEEN AS SEMIOPHYSIGS
A. Axiomatics = 144
B. $$\tau$$$$\acute\varepsilon$$$$\lambda$$o$$\varsigma$$, $$\tau$$$$\acute\varepsilon$$$$\lambda$$$$\varepsilon$$$$\iota$$ov and $$\tau$$$$\varepsilon$$$$\lambda$$$$\varepsilon$$$$\upsilon$$$$\tau$$$$\acute\eta$$: birth and demise of an entity = 146
C. "Potentiality" defined by mental experience = 147
D. Homoeomerous parts = 148
E. Homoeomerous, anhomoeomerous and catastrophe theory = 149
P. Axioms of actuality = 149
1. Zerovalent sentences = 150
2. Univalent sentences = 150
3. Divalent sentences = 151
G. Theory of the transitive act = 152
H. The act, the actants, and their telos = 152
I. Genesis and death = 154
J. Contingency of the act = 155
K. Examples of complex acts = 157
1. Housebuilding = 157
2. Embryology = 159
Notes and references = 163
CHAPTER 7. PERSPECTIVES IN ARISTOTELIAN BIOLOGY
A. The primordial topological intuitions of Aristotelianism: Aristotle and the continuum = 165
B. Actuality, the boundary of potentiality = 169
C. The case of Biology. The axiom ABP in Biology. Its limitations = 171
D. Act, boundary and potentiality. General discussion = 175
E. Anhomoeomerous parts and their hierarchy = 180
F. Aristotle and the divisibility of matter. Quiddities and genera = 185
Notes and references = 186
CHAPTER 8. ARISTOTELIAN PERSPECTIVES IN LANGUAGE THEORY
A. Linguistic universals = 189
B. Genera = 193
C. Hypergenera = 198
1. Definition = 198
2. Extension of a concept = 199
D. Classification of actions = 201
E. Linguistic utterance = 205
F. The Tree of Porphyry = 209
Notes and references = 211
CONCLUSION
A. Aristotle and modern Science = 214
B. Demiurgy and Hermenuetics = 218
Notes and references = 220
QUOTATIONS FROM ARISTOTLE = 221
APPENDIX
A. Reading notes by Bruno Pinchard = 230
B. The author's commentary on Bruno Pinchard's reading notes = 243
Notes and references = 351
INDEX OF SUBJECTS = 253
INDEX OF NAMES = 263
