Organization in Biology
This open access book assesses the prospects of (re)adopting organization as a pivotal concept in biology. It shows how organization can nourish biological thinking and practice, by reconnecting with the idea of biology as the science of organized systems. The book provides a comprehensive state-of-...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2024.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024. |
| Series: | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences,
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Historical and Conceptual Foundations
- 'Organization': Its Conceptual History, Definition and Relationship to Other Fundamental Biological Concepts
- Varieties of Organicism - A Metacritique?
- Organization as Presupposition? On the Epistemological Implications in the Attitudinal Stance
- 'Dogmatic' vs 'Legitimate' Organicism: Organization as Explanans and Explanandum in Biology
- Does Organicism Really Need Organization?
- Part2: Origins of Life
- A Structuralist Revival for Studies on the Origins of Life and Developmental Evolution
- On the Evolutionary Development of Biological Organization from Complex Prebiotic Chemistry
- Development
- An Organizational View on Development, with a Focus on Life Cycles
- Modelling Mammary Organogenesis from Biological First Principles: Cells and Organization of Constraints
- Part 4: Evolution
- Extended Heredity and the Return of Organizational Thinking in Evolutionary Biology
- Collaboration and the Evolution of Biological Complexity: AnOrganizational Perspective
- Organisms: Between a Kantian Approach and a Liberal Approach
- Part 5: Ecology
- Individuating Ecosystems by Ascribing Functions to their Parts
- Ecological Functions and Environmental Ethics
- Part 6: Theoretical Biology
- Studying Functional Organization with Systems Theory
- Organizational Principles of Autonomy
- On Taking an Organizational Approach to Cognition
- Biological Organization at the Crossroads between Conservation and Innovation.