The Riddle of Organismal Agency : New Historical and Philosophical Reflections Hardback
Edited by Alejandro Fabregas-Tejeda, Jan (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) Baedke, Guido I. Prieto, Gregory Radick
Part of the History and Philosophy of Biology series
Hardback
Description
The Riddle of Organismal Agency brings together historians, philosophers and scientists for an interdisciplinary re-assessment of one of the long-standing problems in the scientific understanding of life. Marshalling insights from diverse sciences including physiology, comparative psychology, developmental biology, and evolutionary biology, the book provides an up-to-date survey of approaches to non-human organisms as agents, capable of performing activities serving their own goals such as surviving or reproducing, and whose doings in the world are thus to be explained teleologically.
From an Integrated History and Philosophy of Science perspective, the book contributes to a better conceptual and theoretical understanding of organismal agency, advancing some suggestions on how to study it empirically and how to frame it in relation to wider scientific and philosophical traditions.
It also provides new historical entry points for examining the deployment, trajectories and challenges of agential views of organisms in the history of biology and philosophy. This book will be of interest to philosophers of biology; historians of science; biologists interested in analysing the active roles of organisms in development, ecological interactions, and evolution; philosophers and practitioners of the cognitive sciences; and philosophers and historians of philosophy working on purposiveness and teleology.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:296 pages, 6 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:16/08/2024
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- ISBN:9781032537269
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Pre-Order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:296 pages, 6 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:16/08/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032537269
