BOOKS

 

Schrödinger, Erwin (with foreword by Roger Penrose). 1944/2014.
What is Life?: The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell
with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
.
Cambridge University Press.
[Mind and Matter originally published in 1958.
Autobiographical Sketches originally published in 1992.]
Margulis, Lynn and Dorian Sagan. 1995.
What is Life?
Berkeley: University of California Press.
Murphy, Michael P., and Luke A. J. O’Neill. 1997.
What is Life?: The Next Fifty Years:
Speculations on the Future of Biology
.
Cambridge University Press.
Kauffman, Stuart A. 2000.
Investigations.
Oxford University Press.
Bedau, Mark A. 2008.
“What is Life?” In Sarkar, Sahotra, and Anya Plutynski.
A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology.
Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Brockman, John (ed.), F. Dyson, J. C. Venter, et al. 2008.
“Life: What A Concept!
An Edge Special Event at Eastover Farm.”

EDGE Foundation, New York.
Bedau, Mark A., and Carol E. Cleland. 2010.
The Nature of Life: Classical and Contemporary
Perspectives from Philosophy and Science
.
Cambridge University Press.
Capra, Fritjof, and Pier Luigi Luisi. 2014.
The Systems View of Life.
Cambridge University Press.
Myers, William. 2014.
“Beyond Biomimicry.” In Bio design: Nature, Science, Creativity.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

“I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century
will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era
is beginning, just like the digital one…” —Steve Jobs, 2011.

Shanken, Edward A. 2015.
Systems.
Cambridge, MA: Whitechapel [MIT Press].
Brockman, John (ed.). 2016.
Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics,
Anthropology, and Environmental Science
.
Harper Perennial.
Luisi, Pier Luigi. 2016.
The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins
to Synthetic Biology
[2nd edition]
.
Cambridge University Press. [First edition published in 1996].
Walker, Sara Imari, Paul C. W. Davies, & George F.R. Ellis (eds.). 2017.
From Matter to Life: Information and Causality.
Cambridge University Press.
Kauffman, Stuart. 2019.
A World Beyond Physics:
The Emergence and Evolution of Life
.
Oxford University Press.
Cleland, Carol E. 2019.
The Quest for a Universal Theory of Life
Searching for Life As We Don’t Know It.
Cambridge University Press.
* This collection of volumes  was curated by Jeremy Swartz.

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