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Charles S. Peirce’s philosophy of signs, generally construed as the foundation of current semiotic theory, offers a theory of general perception with significant implications for the notion of ... argue that these claims align with certain areas of the philosophy of biology, specifically epistemological and ontological considerations, despite the limited formal interaction between disciplines. This
Biological agency has received much attention in recent philosophy of biology. But what is the motivation for introducing talk of agency into biology and what is meant by “agent”? Two distinct ... recent discussions in philosophy of biology and related fields. A number of authors have suggested that certain biological entities, typically organisms, are agent-like in certain respects, or can usefully
biology and philosophy of science. This involves clarifying the relationship between teleonomy and teleological explanation, as well as asking how the concept of teleonomy impinges on research at the ... Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN , USA The concept of teleonomy has been attracting renewed attention recently. This is based on the idea that teleonomy provides
Biodiversity and Heritage, Australian National University , Canberra, ACT , Australia 1 Institute of Archaeology, University College London , London , UK 2 Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences, Australian ... is when things get particularly tough. Hawkes's ladder is a four-part - Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK ordering of inferences from material remains to the behaviors that
and critique, Simpson engages questions that would become increasingly fundamental in modern biological theory and philosophy. Did individuality, adaptation, and evolutionary causation reside at more ... thereof? What was an individual, anyway? In this introduction, we highlight two points in a wider historical context. First, recognizing the political context of Simpson's writing profoundly deepens our
that Popper’s two problems belong to the field of philosophy of science and concern the justification of knowledge, while Wittgenstein’s problems belong to the field of philosophy of mind and concern the ... alternative are partly grounded in a philosophy of mind that he inherited from representative idealism (of which both empiricism and rationalism are examples). Wittgenstein repudiated representative idealism
Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , Munich , Germany In this article, I respond to commentaries by Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg and by David Spurrett on my target article “Complexity and ... in their commentaries to examine my proposal in detail and offer the criticisms I respond to here. Before we begin, however, let me briefly restate the hypothesis of interest: Department of Philosophy
. Waddington, Claude Lévi Strauss, Jackson Pollock, and Mies van der Rohe. It pioneered the science of mathematical biology, and its influence in art, architecture, anthropology, geography, philosophy, and many ... , philosophy, creative writing, and other subjects. The museum and Thompson’s ideas are also central to a new Master of Fine Arts course in Art, Science and Visual Thinking, introduced at Duncan of Jordanstone
, Minneapolis, MN , USA 1 Department of Philosophy & Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN , USA - Publisher’s Note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to
justification) in establishing scientific facts; nature does not always get the last word. Philosophy also counts. The second is that adaptive thinking constitutes a core heuristic in evolutionary psychology that ... testing, it will not make any serious difference which methodology is employed in the process of discovering hypotheses, or where they come from. After all, it is not philosophy (methodology) but nature
knowledge in its unity and its destruction root and branch; education and de-education; reformist political aspiration and subversion: this is the binary body with which philosophy took its first steps. What ... 0 W. Callebaut (&) Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research , Altenberg, Austria Socrates is generally regarded as the father of western philosophy. His student Plato created the
advocating an ecological perspective on immune systems. Biotic/abiotic distinction; Eco-immunology; Environment; Invertebrate immunology; Model organisms; Philosophy of immunology; Small RNAs; Taxonomic bias ... and its philosophy: How does the inclusion of responses to abiotic triggers influence our notions of immunity? How do cognitive metaphors square with interactions of the immune system with abiotic
this intellectual integration, and a link to another part of philosophy, is seen in Lewontin's political engagement. In Jerry Coyne's reminiscence of Lewontin on his website, he makes a point of ... 2 Department of Philosophy, Columbia University , New York, NY , USA 3 Department of Philosophy, University of British Colombia , Vancouver, BC , Canada 4 Diane B. Paul 5 Elliott Sober 6 Sahotra
," including Boker’s reprehensible political affiliation with the Nazi Party. Finally, we highlight some of the historical reasons for why Böker’s views did not have a larger impact in evolutionary biology, but ... four). This appraisal also deals with his reprehensible political affiliations with the Nazi Party. Finally, in the last section, we recount some of the direct and indirect legacies of his approach in
Review of David Stephenson, Political Power in Medieval Gwynedd: Governance and the Welsh Princes, (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2nd edn. 2014), considering the text in light of its new ... Royal Studies Journal (RSJ) Political Power in Medieval Gwynedd: Gover nance and the Welsh Princes, David Stephenson (Cardiff: University of Wales, 2014). - Political Power in Medieval Gwynedd
is, to some extent, similar to the one proposed by Waters (2007) in the philosophy of causation literature and, more particularly, within the interventionist account of causation (Woodward 2003 ... will hereafter term “contextual additivity.” Crucially, 17 There is a parallel here with the aim in neo-mechanical philosophy to separate a system into “natural” subunits (for a brief review, see
philosophy. As a biologist, I use “causality” as referring to “the relationship between cause and effect” in a physical sense; this expression being given under both causality and causation in the Concise ... ) Capturing processes: the interplay of modelling strategies and conceptual understanding in developmental biology . In: Nicholson DJ , Dupré J (eds) Everything flows: towards a processual philosophy of biology
/10.1016/B978-0 -12-381262-9 . 00005 - 7 Cannon WB ( 1929 ) Organization for physiological homeostasis . Physiol Rev 93 : 399 - 431 Cottrell A ( 1979 ) The natural philosophy of engines . Contemp Phys 201 ... . Philosophical and scientific perspectives . MIT Press, Cambridge, pp 91 - 129 de Regt HW ( 2011 ) Explanation . In: French S, Saatsi J (eds) The continuum companion to the philosophy of science . Continuum Press
his rejection of mainstream externalist representationalist thinking in the philosophy of mind, describing his ideas as an “emphasis on the shaping of action” (p. 59; italics in original) that is so ... important if one wants to understand the branching of an animal way of life.9 9 By representationalist approaches in the philosophy of mind, I mean attempts to understand and distinguish mental states in
political activities of the men and women who served the queen. Existing scholarship of early modern queens’ estates has focused on the legal status of the queen’s council and the solvency of her household ... Suffolk: LP, 6:1541. Philippa Woodcock has argued that Catherine used her reduced circumstances and poverty as a political tool in her struggle against Henry. See: Philippa Woodcock “Queenly Poverty: The