title: A historical note on "artificial life".
abstract: In this paper, I am dealing with some epistemological aspects of what Christopher Langton (1989) and some other scientists have been calling recently "artificial life", whose history, in fact, is far older. I want to take a view on the origin, further developments and latest issues of these models, and try to point out the major philosophical and epistemological problems arising with them.
authors.affiliation: Université de Toulouse Le Mirail.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Parrochia
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D001331:Automation / Q000266:history*; D002455:Cell Division; D003491:Cybernetics / Q000266:history*; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D008128:Logic; D008954:Models, Biological