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SELECTED REFERENCES (full text .pdf files for personal download where noted)
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| Swenson, R. (1988). Emergence and the principle of maximum entropy production: Multi-level system Meeting of the International Society for General Systems Research, 32.theory, evolution, and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for General Systems Research, 32. |
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| Swenson, R.
(1989a). Engineering initial conditions
in a self-producing environment. In A Delicate Balance: Technics, Culture and Consequences , M. Rogers and N. Warren (eds.), a68-73, IEEE Catalog No. 89CH291-4. Los Angeles: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. |
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| Swenson, R.
(1989b). Emergent evolution and the global attractor: The evolutionary epistemology of entropy production maximization.
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of The InternationalzzSociety for the Systems Sciences, P. Leddington (ed)., 33(3), 46-53. |
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| Swenson, R.
(1989c). Engineering initial conditions in non-Newtonian human
systems. Proceedings of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, P. Leddington (ed.)., 33(3), 24-35. |
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| Swenson, R. (1989d). Emergent attractors and the law of maximum entropy production: Foundations to a theory of general evolution. Systems Research, 6,187-1987. |
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| Swenson, R.
(1989e). Gauss-in-a-box: Nailing down the first principles of
action. Perceiving Acting Workshop Review (Technical Report of the Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action) 5, 60-63. |
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| Swenson, R.
(1990a). Evolutionary systems and society. World Futures,
30, 11- 16. |
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| Swenson, R. (1990b). A robust ecological physics needs an ongoing crackdown on makers conjured out of thin air. Perceiving-Acting Workshop Review (Technical Report of the Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action) 5(2), 24-30. |
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| Swenson, R. (1991a). End-directed physics and evolutionary ordering: Obviating the problem of the population of one. In The Cybernetics of Complex Systems: Self-Organization, Evolution, and Social Change, F. Geyer (ed.), 41-60. Salinas, CA: Intersystems Publications. |
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| Swenson, R. (1991b). Order, evolution, and natural law: Fundamental relations in complex system theory. In Cybernetics and Applied Systems, C. Negoita (ed.), 125-148. New York: Marcel Dekker Inc. |
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| Swenson, R. and Turvey,
M.T. (1991). Thermodynamic reasons
for perception-action cycles. Ecological Psychology, 3(4), 317-348. Translated and reprinted in Perspectives on Affordances, xxxx M. Sasaki (ed.). Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1998 (in Japanese). .pdf file here |
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| Swenson, R. (1992). Autocatakinetics, yes-Autopoiesis, no: Steps towards a unified theory of evolutionary ordering. International Journal of General Systems, 21(2), 207-228. |
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| Swenson, R.
(1997a). Autocatakinetics, evolution, and the law of maximum entropy production: A principled
foundation toward the study of human ecology. Advances in Human Ecology, 6, 1-46. .pdf file here |
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| Swenson, R.
(1997b). Evolutionary theory developing: The problem(s) with 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea', Ecological Psychology, 9 (1), 47-96. |
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| Swenson, R. (1998a). Thermodynamics, evolution, and behavior. In The Handbook of Comparative Psychology, G. Greenberg and M. Haraway (eds.), Garland Publishing, New York. |
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| Swenson, R. (1998b). Autocatakinetics, the minimal ontology, and the constitutive logic of ecological relations. Revue de la Pensee d'Aujour
d'Hui (Japanese Journal of Contemporary Philosophy.), May, vol.25-6 (in Japanese). |
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| Swenson, R. (1998c). Spontaneous order, evolution, and autocatakinetics: The nomological basis for the emergence of meaning. In Evolutionary Systems, G. van de Vijver, S. Salthe, and M. Delpos (eds.). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer. |
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| Swenson, R. (1999). Epistemic ordering and the development of space-time: Intentionality as a universal entailment. Semiotica, Volume 127 - 1-4 , pp. 181-222. |
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| Matsuno, K. & R. Swenson (1999). Thermodynamics in the present progressive mode and it's role in the context of the origin of life. Biosystems. |
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| Swenson, R. (2000). Spontaneous Order, Autocatakinetic Closure, and the Development of Space-Time. Annals New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 901, pp. 311-319, 2000. .pdf file here |
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