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Everything flows : towards a processual philosophy of biology
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- Process Philosophy of Biology (2014 : Exeter)
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- Creator
- edited by Daniel J. Nicholson and John Dupré
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018
- ©2018
- Physical Details
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- xv, 386 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780191085178, 0198779631, 9780191824685, 0191824682, 0191085170, 9780198779636
- OCLC
- on1038483603, on1007033774
- "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.
- 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