Abstract Defending Robert Rosen's claim that in every confrontation between physics and
biology it is physics that has always had to give ground, it is shown that many of the most …

Rosen classified sciences into two categories: formalizable and unformalizable. Whereas
formalizable sciences expressed in terms of mathematical theories were highly valued by …

Language plays a central role in human life. However, the term 'language'as defined in the
language sciences of the 20th century and the traditions these have drawn on, have …

In order to identify General Systems Theory (GST) or at least have a fuzzy idea of what it
might look like, we shall look for its traces on different systems. We shall try to identify such …

The emerging contemporary natural philosophy provides a common ground for the
integrative view of the natural, the artificial, and the human-social knowledge and practices …

Georges Canguilhem is known to have regretted, with some pathos, that life no longer
serves as an orienting question in our scientific activity. He also frequently insisted on a kind …

Structural modeling of complex biological systems relies on formalisms inherited from
physics. These formalisms scale poorly when dealing with interactions with many variables …

Attempts to answer questions regarding the ontological status of information are frequently
based on the assumption that information should be placed within an already existing …

In our previous paper we introduced morphogenesis and post-embryonic life as arising from
cells interacting via coupled chemical, electrical and mechanical processes occurring across …

Contemporary Natural Philosophy is understood here as a project of the pursuit of the
integrated description of reality distinguished by the precisely formulated criteria of …