New Paper (2025), Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists

7 January 2025

New Paper (2025), Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists

Published open-access in Philosophy of Science Abstract: Since Cannon, inspired by Bernard’s discussion of the conditions required for free and independent life, introduced the term homeostasis, many have embraced it as the main theoretical principle guiding physiology and medicine. Nonetheless, critics have argued that homeostasis is too limiting and have advanced a variety of alternative concepts such as heterostasis, rheostasis, […]

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Operational Dialectics: Gotthard Günther’s Cybernetic Systems

31 October 2023

Operational Dialectics: Gotthard Günther’s Cybernetic Systems

Hegel did not write a philosophy of technology. However, there have been many attempts to find possible intersections between Hegelian dialectics and the philosophy of technology. Today, we should look back to Hegel’s ideas of self-reflection, the organism and causality when considering self-organizing systems. But this relationship has already been explored in the past, especially […]

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The Quest for Scientific Image of Mind

8 November 2022

The Quest for Scientific Image of Mind

The question of the place of mind in nature is one of the oldest and deepest questions in philosophy and the sciences. If the physical sciences to tell us ‘what nature is’, what happens to mental phenomena: thoughts, beliefs, desires, emotions, memories, and ideals? For centuries, philosophers, theologians, and scientists argued about what a “science […]

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