Life and Process : : Towards a New Biophilosophy / / ed. by Spyridon A. Koutroufinis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Cobb, John B.,; Delafield-Butt, Jonathan T.,; Earley, Joseph E.,; Falkner, Gernot,; Falkner, Renate,; Griffin, David R.,; Gunter, Pete A.Y.,; Koutroufinis, Spyridon A.,; Muraca, Barbara,; Stapp, Henry P.,; Valenza, Robert J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Koutroufinis, Spyridon A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Process Thought , 26
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)

Alfred North Whitehead is arguably the most original 20th-century philosopher of nature and metaphysics. In recent decades a number of physicists have produced ground-breaking new theories in fundamental physics influenced by his process philosophy. In contrast, few biologists are even aware that Wh...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments I
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: The Need for a New Biophilosophy
• Teleology and the Life Sciences: Between Limit Concept and Ontological Necessity
• The Experience of Environmental Phosphate Fluctuations by Cyanobacteria: an Essay on the Teleological Feature of Physiological Adaptation
• Beyond Systems Theoretical Explanations of an Organism’s Becoming: A Process Philosophical Approach
• Process and Action: Whitehead’s Ontological Units and Perceptuomotor Control Units
• Life in the Interstices: Systems Biology and Process Thought
• Quantum Biology: A Live Option
• The Effect of Mind upon Brain
• A Fourth Variable in Evolution
• Evolution without Tears: A Third Way beyond Neo-Darwinism and Intelligent Design
• Covariance and Evolution
• Index