In recent years, so-called organizational accounts (OA) have emerged in theoretical biology as a powerful, viable strategy for naturalizing teleology and normativity. In the wake of the …
AG Wouters - The philosophy of biology: A companion for educators, 2013 - Springer
This chapter discusses biology's functional perspective: what it amounts to, why it is essential and how it differs from our everyday intuitions. Using an explanation of the …
A Etxeberria, L Nuño - Pere Alberch. The Creative Trajectory of an …, 2009 - researchgate.net
The work of Pere Alberch is crucial to study the early stages of EvoDevo. In particular, it illustrates very persuasively why developmental systems have so much to say about the …
I found myself writing a book for new biologists that would help address this. It takes ideas like intelligent design and orthogenesis seriously in context to make it clear why they were …
The metaphor of the adaptive landscape, introduced by Sewall Wright in 1932, has played, and continues to play, a central role in much evolutionary thought. I argue that the use of this …
LJ Mix - The End of Final Causes in Biology, 2022 - Springer
The dynamic regularities of living things still demand a language of ends and a theory of power, form, and function to go with it. Ancient and Medieval formulations of souls with final …
LJ Mix - The End of Final Causes in Biology, 2022 - Springer
In the early twentieth century, genes arose as a new locus of power, form, and function. This new biological “agent” outcompeted other concepts to become a primary unit of biology …
The thesis titled 'A Mentalistic Account of Teleology in Biology'is a philosophical account of teleological concepts within the context of biology. It explains the usefulness of teleological …
In this thesis I use the following conventions concerning the use of capital letters. When the text refers to a specific object such as 'the Moon'or 'the Earth circles the Sun'the object is …