Keyword: causality

Henry Potter and Kevin Mitchell challenge reductive views in neuroscience by introducing richer, temporally extended notions of causality. It argues for re-centering cognition and the organism as genuine causal agents in explanations of behavior. Read here. Abstract: In neuroscience, the search for the causes of behaviour is often just taken to be the search for […]

Tahar, Mathilde (2024). Du finalisme en biologie. Bergson et la théorie de l’évolution. Paris: Presses universitaires de France. As Ernst Mayr wrote, “no other ideology has influenced biology more profoundly than teleological thinking” (Mayr 1992, 117). This approach, which interprets phenomena based on their finality (telos), has permeated the history of biology since Aristotle. It […]