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Everything flows : towards a processual philosophy of biology / edited by Daniel J. NIcholson and John Dupré.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Process Philosophy of Biology (2014 : Exeter)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Process philosophy--Congresses.
- Process philosophy.
- Biology--Philosophy--Congresses.
- Biology.
- Biology--Philosophy.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 386 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Introduction.
- A manifesto for a processual philosophy of biology / John Dupré and Daniel J. Nicholson
- Metaphysics.
- Processes and precipitates / Peter Simons
- Dispositionalism: a dynamic theory of causation / Rani Lill Anjum and Stephen Mumford
- Biological processes: criteria of identity and persistence / James DiFrisco
- Genidentity and biological processes / Thomas Pradeu
- Ontological tools for the process turn in biology: some basic notions of general process theory / Johanna Seibt
- Organisms.
- Reconceptualizing the organism: from complex machine to flowing stream / Daniel J. Nicholson
- Objectcy and agency: towards a methodological vitalism / Denis M. Walsh
- Symbiosis, transient biological individuality, and evolutionary processes / Frédéric Bouchard
- From organizations of processes to organisms and other biological individuals / Argyris Arnellos
- Development and evolution. Developmental systems theory as a process theory / Paul Griffiths and Karola Stotz
- Waddington's processual epigenetics and the debate over cryptic variability / Flavia Fabris
- Capturing processes: the interplay of modelling strategies and conceptual understanding in developmental biology / Laura Nuño de la Rosa
- Intersecting processes are necessary explanantia for evolutionary biology, but challenge retrodiction / Eric Bapteste and Gemma Anderson
- Implications and applications.
- A process ontology for macromolecular biology / Stephan Guttinger
- A processual perspective on cancer / Marta Bertolaso and John Dupré
- Measuring the world: olfaction as a process model of perception / Ann-Sophie Barwich
- Persona as biological processes: a bio-processual way out of the personal identity dilemma / Anne Sophie Meincke.
- Notes:
- "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.
- ISBN:
- 0198779631
- 9780198779636
- OCLC:
- 1007033774
- Publisher Number:
- 99977987413
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