Nature alive [electronic resource] : essays on the emergence and evolution of living agents

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서명/저자사항	Nature alive [electronic resource]: essays on the emergence and evolution of living agents / edited by Adam C. Scarfe.
개인저자	Scarfe, Adam Christian, 1972- editor.
발행사항	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
형태사항	1 online resource (xxiii, 302 pages) : illustrations.
기타형태 저록	Print version: Nature alive. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018 152750610X
ISBN	9781527506107 152750610X
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references (pages ) and index.
내용주기	Nature alive : the emergence and evolution of living agents / Lukasz Lamza and Adam C. Scarfe -- Is environmental philosophy compatible with mechanistic neo-Darwinism? : organismic agency, intrinsic purposiveness, and the "new frontiers" of biology / Adam C. Scarfe -- Cells, organisms, colonies, communities : the fuzziness of individuality in modern biology / Lukasz Lamza -- The emergence of animal mind : shrinking the explanatory gap / Lawrence Cahoone -- Possibility, spontaneity, and the general order of nature : Toward a general theory of emergence / Philip Rose -- The physiological basis of organismic creativity / Gernot G. Falkner and Renate Falkner -- Organismic intricacy : time, possibility, and nonrandom heritable novelty / Neil Dunaetz -- Beyond mechanism, toward re-enchantment / Philip Tryon.
요약	"This volume pays homage to Alfred North Whitehead's (1861-1947) profound lecture and essay entitled "Nature Alive," which was one of his most mature expressions of his process-relational metaphysics - a holistic conceptual framework that renders vivid the dynamic character of the natural world and the intrinsic purposiveness, selective agency, and creativity of living organisms. Inspired by, but not beholden to, Whitehead's process metaphysical "lens," the contributors to this volume bring a multiplicity of philosophical orientations to the table in challenging the mechanistic and reductionistic neo-Darwinian paradigm that is still dominant today in the life sciences. Mechanistic neo-Darwinism views nature and living organisms as "machines," namely, as networks of externally related and linear causal "switches," "dials," "levers," "pulleys," and "gears," that are "at the ready" for technological and biotechnological manipulation. Seeking a conceptual framework and a language that are more adequate to the study of the natural world and of living creatures than the mechanistic orientation, the contributors to this volume explore several of the "New Frontiers of Biology," which are areas of biology whose findings to some extent go beyond the explanatory confines of the Modern Synthesis of natural selection and genetics. Most notably, emergence theory, the theory of organic selection, epigenetics, homeostasis, chronobiology, and autopoiesis research can provide us with key insights that can assist us in explaining how living agents emerged, including the evolutionary origins of mentality, consciousness, and mind. Moreover, attention to the "New Frontiers of Biology" can serve to "re-enchant" our understanding of the natural world and to prevent ecological devastation, through a restoration to objectivity of notions such as "intrinsic purposiveness," "selective agency," "creativity," and "intrinsic value."--
해제	Back cover.
일반주제명	Life --Origin. Evolution (Biology) Mechanism (Philosophy) Naturalism. Reductionism. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution.
분류기호(DDC)	576.83
언어	영어
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