RESOURCES

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 Dr. Jeremy Swartz.