The Riddle of Organismal Agency
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The Riddle of Organismal Agency

New Historical and Philosophical Reflections

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The Riddle of Organismal Agency

New Historical and Philosophical Reflections

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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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
ISBN
9781040111499
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Social Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. 1 Organismal Agency: A Persistent Riddle in the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
  11. Part I Trajectories of Organismal Agency in the History of the Life Sciences and Philosophy
  12. Part II Evolutionary Perspectives on Agency
  13. Part III Behaviour, Scientific Practice, and Self-Individuation
  14. Part IV Theoretical and Metaphysical Frameworks for Organismal Agency
  15. Index