Dear Colleagues, this is a CFP for a new 2015 special issue of the Elsevier's Journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology dedicated to Integral Biomathics under the title Life Sciences, Mathematics, and Phenomenological Philosophy
*Guest Editors (GE)*: Plamen L. Simeonov, Steven M. Rosen, Arran Gare *Timeline:* Deadline for submitting papers: 1st April, 2015 Deadline for submitting revised papers: 1st August, 2015 Final deadline for GE’s to accept all papers: 1st October, 2015 Publication deadline: November/December 2015 CFP: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/progress-in-biophysics-and-molecular-biology/call-for-papers/special-theme-issue-on-integral-biomathics-life-sciences-mat/ We look forward to your contributions. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *Call for Papers* This special journal issue continues the tradition of the previous two volumes of the series on Integral Biomathics in 2013 and 2012 ([1], [2]), which originated from the 2011 EC FP7 collaboration initiative INBIOSA [3] ( www.inbiosa.eu) and a 2010 programme vision paper [4]. The project is now carried forward as a periodic JPBMB focused report made possible by the generous support of Prof. Denis Noble and the members of our worldwide multidisciplinary research community. This time we take on an essential aspect of our discourse that was touched upon in some of the previous contributions, but still has not been considered sufficiently in contemporary biomathematical and biocomputational models*.* We have decided to put the emphasis of this volume on phenomenological philosophy and its relation to life sciences and mathematics because we consider it as a central and leading element in the development of scientific thought. To avoid semantic confusion, bear in mind that the term “phenomenology” is still being used with a very different, Cartesian meaning in the natural sciences (cf. [5], pp. xiii-xiv). What concerns us in the present forum are concepts of phenomenological *philosophy *such as von Uexküll’s umwelt (or “surrounding world”), Heidegger's notion of being-in-the-world [6], Husserl's notion of life-world, Bergson’s concept of lived time, and Merleau-Ponty's corporeality [7] and depth [8]. Here, the body is seen not only as an object of scientific study, but as an experiential ground that constitutes a world unto itself, one that first makes intelligible the emergence of subjectivity in relation to a surrounding milieu. We welcome original contributions exploring the borderlines between philosophical phenomenology and cognitive science, neuroscience, biology, ecological/environmental science, biosemiotics, autopoiesis, second-order cybernetics, artificial intelligence, pure mathematics and computation, chaos and complexity science. They can be developed along the lines of thought and philosophical traditions of F. W. J. von Schelling, Jakob Johann von Uexküll, Gustav T. Fechner, William James, Charles S. Pierce, Henri Bergson, Alfred North Whitehead, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson, and others. *References* [1] Simeonov, P. L., Matsuno, K., Root-Bernstein, R. S. (Eds.) 2013. *Can Biology Create a Profoundly New Mathematics and Computation? *Special Theme Issue on Integral Biomathics. *Journal Progress of Biophysics and Molecular Biology*. Vol. 113, Issue 1 (September 2013).Elsevier. ISSN: 0079-6107. [2] Simeonov, P. L., Smith, L., S., Ehresmann, A. C. (Eds.), 2012. *Integral Biomathics: Tracing the Road to Reality*, Proceedings of iBioMath 2011, Paris and ACIB '11, Stirling UK. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. ISBN-10: 3642281109; ISBN-13: 978-3642281105. OCLC WorldCat Number: 800365119. [3] Simeonov, P. L., Brezina, E., Cottam, Ehresmann, A. C., Gare, A., Goranson, T., Gomez-Ramirez, J., Josephson, B. D., Marchal, B., Matsuno, K., Root-Bernstein, R. S., Rössler, O. E., Salthe, Schroeder, M., S. N., Seaman, Siregar, P., B., Smith, L. S. 2012. *Stepping Beyond the Newtonian Paradigm in Biology.**Towards an Integrable Computational Model of Life: Accelerating Discovery in the Biological* *Foundations of Science*. INBIOSA White Paper. In: *Integral Biomathics: Tracing the Road to Reality*, Proc. of iBioMath 2011, Paris and ACIB '11, Stirling UK, P. L. Simeonov, L. S. Smith, A. C. Ehresmann (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, ISBN-10: 3642281109; ISBN-13: 978-3642281105. [4] Simeonov, P. L. 2010. *Integral Biomathics: A Post-Newtonian View into the Logos of Bio*. *J. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology*, Elsevier, ISSN: 0079-6107, Vol. 102, Issues 2/3, June/July 2010,85-121. Available online: 8 February 2010. DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2010.01.005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2010.01.005. also in: *arXiv.org* <http://arxiv.org/>, http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.NE/0703002. [5] Rosen, S. M. 2008. *The Self-evolving Cosmos: A Phenomenological Approach to Nature's Unity-in-diversity.* World Scientific Publishing Co. Plc. Ltd. Series on Knots and Everything. Volume 18. ISBN-10: 9812835814; ISBN-13: 978-9812835819. [6] Heidegger, M. 1927. *Sein und Zeit* (Tübingen): Niemeyer. 19. Aufl. (2006), ISBN-10: 3484701536; ISBN-13: 978-3484701533. *Being and Time*. Translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. New York: Harper and Row, 1962. Harper Perennial Modern Thought edition (2008). ISBN-10: 0061575593; ISBN-13*:*978-0061575594. [7] Merleau-Ponty, M. 1945. *Phénoménologie de la perception.* (Paris): Gallimard. *Phenomenology of Perception*. Translated by Colin Smith New York: Humanities Press, and London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962. Routledge (2013). ISBN-10: 0415834333; ISBN-13: 978-0415834339. [8] ———. 1964. “Eye and Mind.” In *The Primacy of Perception*, edited by James M. Edie, 159–90. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. ISBN-10: 0810101645; ISBN-13: 978-0810101647. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Kind regards, ___ ___ ___ Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov landline: +49.30.38.10.11.25 fax/ums: +49.30.48.49.88.26.4 mobile: +49.17.43.56.41.75 email: pla...@simeio.org URL: www.simeio.org
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