Teleology in Biology: Bergson and evolutionary theory

12 November 2024

Teleology in Biology: Bergson and evolutionary theory

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 […]

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New Paper (2022), J. Rust, Precedent as a path laid down in walking: Grounding intrinsic normativity in a history of response

8 December 2022

New Paper (2022), J. Rust, Precedent as a path laid down in walking: Grounding intrinsic normativity in a history of response

Published open access in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Abstract: While developments of a shared intellectual tradition, the enactivist approach and the organizational account proffer importantly different accounts of organismic normativity. Where enactivists tend to follow Hans Jonas, Andres Weber, and Francisco Varela in grounding intrinsic affordance norms in existential concern, organizational theorists such as […]

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