Evolution "on Purpose" Teleonomy in Living Systems
"Explores the theoretical implications of teleonomy, an evolved purposeness exhibited by living systems, and how it has shaped natural selection and biological complexity"--
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press
[2023]
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Vienna series in theoretical biology.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009863830406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Teleonomy in Evolution: "The Ghost in the Machine"
- 3. Cellular Basis of Cognition in Evolution: From Protists and Fungi Up to Animals, Plants, and Root-Fungal Networks
- 4. Constructing "On Purpose": How Niche Construction Affects Natural Selection
- 5. Relational Agency: A New Ontology for Coevolving Systems
- 6. Teleonomic Anticipatory Configurations in Biological Evolution: The Downward Dynamical Nature of Goal-Directedness
- 7. From Teleonomy to Mentally Driven Goal-Directed Behavior: Evolutionary Considerations
- 8. Beyond the Newtonian Paradigm: A Statistical Mechanics of Emergence
- 9. On the Concept of Meaning in Biology
- 10. Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis as a Teleonomic Process
- 11. Form, Function, Agency: Sources of Natural Purpose in Animal Evolution
- 12. How Purposive Agency Became Banned from Evolutionary Biology
- 13. Goal Attributions in Biology: Objective Fact, Anthropomorphic Bias, or Valuable Heuristic?
- 14. Toward the Physicalization of Biology: Seeking the Chemical Origin of Cognition
- 15. Evolutionary Change Is Naturally Biological and Purposeful
- 16. Agency, Teleonomy, Purpose, and Evolutionary Change in Plant Systems
- 17. Agency, Goal Orientation, and Evolutionary Explanations
- 18. Evolutionary Foundationalism: The Myth of the Chemical Given
- Contributors
- Index.
