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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. --
9780198779636 0198779631
2017958461
GBB864875 bnb
018827676 Uk
Biology--Philosophy--Congresses.
Process philosophy--Congresses.
Biology--Philosophy.
Process philosophy.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
"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. --
9780198779636 0198779631
2017958461
GBB864875 bnb
018827676 Uk
Biology--Philosophy--Congresses.
Process philosophy--Congresses.
Biology--Philosophy.
Process philosophy.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.