Problems of Life Research

I. Epistemological and Methodological Foundations of Research into Life.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Epistemological Foundations of the Science of Life.- 3. The Scope of the Natural Scientific Theory of Life.- 4. Special Attributes of Organisms.- 5. The Flow of Energy as the Most Important Principle of Scientific Biology.- 6. Summary.- II. Rhythm and Polarity -- Physiological Analysis and Phenomenological Interpretation.- 1. Causal Analysis of Periodic Processes.- 2. A Critical Analysis of a Causal-Analytic Interpretation of Rhythmic Phenomena.- 3. Phenomenological Description of Rhythm and Polarity.- 4. Summary.- III. Bodily Movement and Exercise -- Physiological Analysis and Phenomenological Interpretation.- 1. Phenomenological Interpretation of Bodily Movement.- 2. Physiological Analysis of Bodily Movements.- 3. Exercise as a Therapeutic Measure.- 4. Summary.- IV. Human Language -- Physiological Analysis and Phenomenological Interpretation.- 1 Physiological Analysis of the Sound of Speech and of Hearing.- 2. A Phenomenological View of Language.- 3. Summary.- 4. Postscript.- V. Stereoscopic Vision and Color Discrimination: Their Typological Polarity and Relations to Pictorial Creativeness.- 1. Physiological Methods.- 2. Psychological Methods.- 3. Performance Differences in Stereoscopic Vision.- 4. Performance Differences in Color Discrimination.- 5. Typological and Sex Differences in the Kind of Creativity.- 6. Stereoscopic Vision and Color Discrimination in Relation to Kind of Creativity.- 7. The Complementary Behavior of Stereoscopic Visual Capacity and Color Discrimination Ability.- 8. Color Discrimination, Stereoscopic Vision and the Kind of Creativity in Relation to Color Selection.- 9. On the Polarity of Form and Color Perception.- 10. Color Selection as a PolarPhenomenon.- 11. Summary.- VI. Quantitative Thinking in the Life Research.- VII. The Essence of Health and Its Maintenance.- VIII. Bibliography.- IX. Author Index.- X. Subject Index.