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

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Introduction
Part I A radical ecological philosophy
	Chapter 1 Reforming the philosophy of the Enlightenment: Chance as a second-order phenomenon and post-humanism
	Chapter 2 Auto-eco-organisation as ontology: The sciences of emergence
	Chapter 3 Auto-exo-reference as epistemology: A biosemiotic approach
	Chapter 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
	Chapter 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
Part II The Anthropocene extinction
	Chapter 6 Summary of Part 1 and Methodology for Part 2
	Chapter 7 Three case studies
	Chapter 8 The Anthropocene extinction: Explicit evidence and implicit epistemology
	Chapter 9 Global governance and its discontents “in practice”: Radically incompatible perspectives: political, economic, cultural and scientific conflicts.
	Chapter 10 In place of a conclusion: Imperatives and ambiguities
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Index