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Everything flows : towards a processual philosophy of biology /

Everything flows : towards a processual philosophy of biology / Towards a processual philosophy of biology edited by Daniel J. Nicholson and John Dupré. - First edition. - xv, 386 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

"The majority of the papers herein originated at the workshop 'Process Philosophy of Biology' ... held in Exeter in November 2014."--Page vii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A manifesto for a processual philosophy of biology / Metaphysics. -- Processes and precipitates / Dispositionalism: a dynamic theory of causation / Biological processes: criteria of identity and persistence / Genidentity and biological processes / Ontological tools for the process turn in biology: some basic notions of general process theory / Organisms. -- Reconceptualizing the organism: from complex machine to flowing stream / Objectcy and agency: towards a methodological vitalism / Symbiosis, transient biological individuality, and evolutionary processes / From organizations of processes to organisms and other biological individuals / Development and evolution. Developmental systems theory as a process theory / Waddington's processual epigenetics and the debate over cryptic variability / Capturing processes: the interplay of modelling strategies and conceptual understanding in developmental biology / Intersecting processes are necessary explanantia for evolutionary biology, but challenge retrodiction / Implications and applications. -- A process ontology for macromolecular biology / A processual perspective on cancer / Measuring the world: olfaction as a process model of perception / Persona as biological processes: a bio-processual way out of the personal identity dilemma / John Dupré and Daniel J. Nicholson -- Peter Simons -- Rani Lill Anjum and Stephen Mumford -- James DiFrisco -- Thomas Pradeu -- Johanna Seibt -- Daniel J. Nicholson -- Denis M. Walsh -- Frédéric Bouchard -- Argyris Arnellos -- Paul Griffiths and Karola Stotz -- Flavia Fabris -- Laura Nuño de la Rosa -- Eric Bapteste and Gemma Anderson -- Stephan Guttinger -- Marta Bertolaso and John Dupré -- Ann-Sophie Barwich -- Anne Sophie Meincke. Introduction. --

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Biology--Philosophy--Congresses.
Process philosophy--Congresses.
Biology--Philosophy.
Process philosophy.


Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.