Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 623 g
Reihe: Biosemiotics
Biological Concepts and Their Philosophical Foundations
Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 623 g
Reihe: Biosemiotics
ISBN: 978-3-031-53625-0
Verlag: Springer
This book explores the notion of organismal agency from the perspective of both philosophy and biology. The two sections of the book delve into parallel themes, including distinctions between organic and inorganic nature, self-organization, autonomy, self-presentation, memory, umwelt, and environmental influence. The philosophical part focuses on the influential thinkers who shaped our perception of living entities beyond mere mechanisms. It scrutinizes the concepts of organism and nature in the works of Aristotle, Kant, Schelling, and various processualists. Each chapter explores facets of their ideas that directly or indirectly foreshadowed or contributed to the formulation of the concept of agency. The biological part of the book investigates various concepts associated with agency such as experience, meaning attribution, and phenotypic plasticity, as well as reproduction, organisational constraints, modularity, development of integrated phenotypes, organismal choices, or self-representation through animal organisation. In essence, this work offers a comprehensive examination of organismal agency and its philosophical and biological foundations. Collaboratively authored by individuals from several institutions, this publication caters primarily to researchers and students working at the intersection of philosophy and biology.
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PART I
Chapter 1. Introduction (Jana Švorcová, Ph.D., Dept. of Philosophy and History of Science, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic)
Chapter 2. The origins of agency in Aristotle’s biology (Roman Figura, MSc., Dept. of Philosophy and History of Science, FS, CU, CR)
Chapter 3. Self-organisation in Aristotelian philosophy (Eliška Fulínová, Ph.D., Centre for Theoretical Studies, CR)
Chapter 4. Kantian concept of organism (Robert Kanócz, Ph.D. and Tomáš Hermann, Ph.D., Dept. of Philosophy and History of Science, FS, CU, CR)
Chapter 5. Schelling’s Philosophy of Nature (Martin Vrabec, Dept. of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, CU, CR)
Chapter 6. The processual essence of organisms (Priv.-Doz. Spyridon Koutroufinis, Ph.D., Institute of Philosophy, Theory of Science, History of Science and Technology, Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
Chapter 7. The becoming of identity: A process ontological view on the relational existence of organisms (Tina Röck, Ph.D., University of Dundee)
PART II
Chapter 8. The teeming biosphere (Doc. Anton Markoš, Dept. of Philosophy and History of Science, FS, CU, CR)Chapter 9. Biological modularity and origins of agency (Jan Toman, Ph.D. Dept. of Philosophy and History of Science, FS, CU, CR)
Chapter 10. Ontogenesis and Organisational Continuity (Johannes Jaeger, Ph.D., Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Austria)
Chapter 11. Agency and the issue of reafference: An organisational and functional systems account (Andres Kurismaa, School of Natural Sciences and Health, Tallinn University, Estonia)Chapter 12. Organic memory and phenotypic plasticity: An old-new scenario of organic evolution (Jana Švorcová, Ph.D. Dept. of Philosophy and History of Science, FS, CU, CR)
Chapter 13. Not whether but how do animals recall the past and plan the future (Jindrich Brejcha, Ph.D. Dept. Of Philosophy and History of Science, FS, CU, CR)
Chapter 14. Agency and Appearance (Doc. Karel Kleisner, Ph.D. Dept. of Philosophy and History of Science, FS, CU, CR)
Chapter 15. Organism as an agent in zoosemiotic perspective: The case of Umwelt reversion (Nelly Mäekivi, Ph.D., Dept. of Semiotics, University of Tartu, Estonia)