Organismal Agency Biological Concepts and Their Philosophical Foundations
This book explores the notion of organismal agency from the perspective of both philosophy and biology. The two sections of the book delve into parallel themes, including distinctions between organic and inorganic nature, self-organization, autonomy, self-presentation, memory, umwelt, and environmen...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | Biosemiotics
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Knowing what an organism is
- Chapter 2. Aristotle: Life as Self-Creation
- Chapter 3. Aristotle and Functional Bauplans
- Chapter 4. Immanuel Kant: Mechanism, Teleology, Organism, and the Powers of Our Mind
- Chapter 5. Schelling’s Philosophy of Nature
- Chapter 6. Organismic Teleology and Agency beyond Systems Theories: A Process-Metaphysical Perspective
- Chapter 7. The becoming of identity: A process-ontological view on the relational co-existence of biological beings
- Chapter 8. (Bio)semiosis as life-specific form of agency
- Chapter 9. Plastic ontogenesis: Memory, closure, and habitual teleology in development
- Chapter 10. Ontogenesis, Organisation, and Organismal Agency
- Chapter 11. Biological modularity and the origins of agency
- Chapter 12. Agential patterns in development and evolution: Towards an anti-entropic approach to the divergence of altricial and precocial mammals
- Chapter 13. Organisms as agents in zoosemiotic perspective: The case of Umwelt reversion
- Chapter 14. Agency and Appearance: Reading the Face of Life