Could All Life Be Agential?”

2 May 2024

Could All Life Be Agential?”

In 1892, Ernst Haeckel introduced the term biopsychism to express the view that all and only living beings are sentient. For Haeckel, this position was to be distinguished both from zoopsychism, the belief that all and only animals are sentient, and his preferred panpsychism, the belief that all and only matter is sentient (Haeckel 1892: […]

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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 Organism as a Subject: Hegel on Nature, Subjectivity, and Interconnectedness

19 September 2023

The Organism as a Subject: Hegel on Nature, Subjectivity, and Interconnectedness

Introduction In his thesis entitled Agency and Organisation, Rasmus Haukedal highlights the remarkable mutual relevance of recent theoretical trends in biology and the dialectical approach to (living) nature as developed by Hegel, Engels, and others (Haukedal 2022). As Haukedal explains, a dialectical approach to the phenomena of life moves beyond the logic of binary thinking […]

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