Yearbook of the Artificial. Vol. 5

The Editor: Massimo Negrotti is Full Professor of Methodology of Human Sciences and Director of IMES-LCA at the University of Urbino. He has published several books on artificiality, introducing the term naturoids as a key word for understanding man-machine relations.

Contents: Massimo Negrotti: Chance would be a fine thing - Denis L. Baggi: The Use of Randomness in the Simulation of Creativity - Danila Bertasio: And Narcissus returns to die in the arms of chance - Aldo Celeschi: Chance: from problem to product - Mariella Combi: Chance as a cultural event - Mario Compiani: The ambivalent role of chance in modern scientific culture - Maurizio Dapor: In praise of chance - Masanori Funakura: Micro Rationality-Randomness and Macro Rationality in Tool Culture: Reciprocity Between Technological and Social intelligences - José M. Galván: Creation and Casuality: The Case in Christian Theological Anthropology - Giuseppe Lanzavecchia: Chance: a law of nature or a cultural construction? - Stefano A. E. Leoni: Some questions on managing randomness by musical performer: about 'indeterminacy' (maybe: 'uncertainty') and 'cruces' (or knots, maybe: hubs?) - Giorgio Mainini: Randomness: a course in survival - Sabrina Moretti: Chance and probability in bioinformatics - Ephraim Nissan: Chance vs. causality, and a taxonomy of explanations - Giuseppe Padovani: Chance and Sense of Action - Fumihiko Satofuka: Rationality and randomness in the skill formation of 'Takumi' as Japanese traditional culture.