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Organization in Biology.

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Superior document:	History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences Series ; v.33.
:	Mossio, Matteo, 1978-
Place / Publishing House:	Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023. ©2024.
Year of Publication:	2023
Edition:	First edition.
Language:	English
Series:	History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences
Physical Description:	1 online resource (338 pages)
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Table of Contents:

Intro
Organization in Biology
Copyright
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Organization as a Scientific Blind Spot
1.1 The Neglect of Organization
1.2 Organization as an Explanandum and an Explanans of Biology
1.3 The Anti-reductionist Trend in Evolutionary Biology
1.4 The Anti-reductionist Trend in Systems Biology
1.5 The Anti-reductionist Trend in the Origins of Life
1.6 What Is Organization?
1.7 Historical Overview
1.8 The Current Context, and The Place of the Book
References
Chapter 2: "Organization": Its Conceptual History and Its Relationship to Other Fundamental Biological Concepts
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Conceptual History of "Organization"
2.3 The Meaning of "Organization"
2.4 "Organization" as One of the Three Basic Principles of Biology
2.5 Organization, Constraints, and Morphology
References
Chapter 3: Varieties of Organicism: A Critical Analysis
3.1 Organicism as Ontology, as Epistemology or as a Blurry Mix
3.2 A Current Organicist Consensus?
3.3 Organicism Strong and Weak, and the Ghost of Vitalism
3.4 Ontology and Ontologization
3.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Judging Organization: A Plea for Transcendental Logic in Philosophy of Biology
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Canguilhem's Theory of Judgment vis-à-vis Life
4.2.1 Canguilhem's Attitudinal Vitalism
4.2.2 Canguilhem's Theory of the "Broken Judgment"
4.2.3 Knowledge About Knowledge: Reflexivity and Reciprocity
4.2.4 Life and Logic
4.3 Kant's Theory of Judgment vis-à-vis Life
4.3.1 Logic as a Return Upon Unconsciously Operative Rules
4.3.2 Transcendental Logic: The Emulsifying Function of Judgment
4.3.3 The Life of the Reflecting Power of Judgment
4.3.4 The Organization of Judgment and/as Living Organization
4.4 Back to Attitudinal Vitalism
4.5 Conclusion.
References
Chapter 5: On the Organizational Roots of Bio-cognition
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Characterizing Organization
5.3 N-organization and Bio-cognition
5.3.1 Autonomy, Agency (and Robotics), Auto(self)-directedness, and Anticipation
5.4 In Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Does Organicism Really Need Organization?
6.1 Introduction
6.2 When Is Organicism?
6.2.1 Organization as a Mean to an End
6.2.2 Defining Organicism
6.3 Organicism and Emergence
6.3.1 Emergence and Organization*
6.3.2 Emergence and Transformation
6.4 Transformational Organicism and the Autonomy of Biology
6.4.1 Transformational Organicism Is Conceptually Sound
6.4.2 Is Transformational Organicism More than Just Conceptually Sound?
6.4.3 A Possible Objection and the Way Forward
6.5 Conclusion: The Good Fortune of Organicism
References
Chapter 7: Organisms: Between a Kantian Approach and a Liberal Approach
7.1 Making Sense of Organisms: The Kantian View
7.1.1 Purposiveness
7.1.2 Regulative Principle?
7.1.3 Natural Purposes and Self-Organization
7.2 Making Sense of Organisms? From Kant to the Modern Synthesis
7.2.1 Design Criterion
7.2.2 Epigeneticism Criterion
7.3 Evolutionary Individuals: A Liberal Approach Based on Conceptual Spaces
7.3.1 Transitions in Individuality
7.3.2 Conceptual Spaces: Being Liberal
7.3.3 Ecosystems, Individuals, and Organisms
7.4 Confronting the Approaches
7.4.1 Threshold Strategy
7.4.2 Pragmatic Strategy
7.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 8: The Fourth Perspective: Evolution and Organismal Agency
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Organizational Closure and Continuity
8.3 Minimal Conditions for Darwinian Evolution by Natural Selection
8.4 Three Different Perspectives on the Evolutionary Causal Thicket.
8.5 Reproducers, Evolvability, and the Completion of the Life Cycle
8.6 Organization, Reproduction, Agency, and Minimal Evolution
8.7 The Fourth Perspective: An Agential Theory of Evolution
8.8 Conclusion
References
Chapter 9: On the Evolutionary Development of Biological Organization from Complex Prebiotic Chemistry
9.1 Introduction: Organization as an Explanatory Construct in Origins-of-Life Research
9.2 Organizational Accounts at the Onset of Prebiotic Evolution: Network Versus Protocell Models
9.2.1 Network Models
9.2.2 Protocell Models
9.3 The Interweaving of Organizational and Evolutionary Processes in Biogenesis: A Complementary but Causally Asymmetric Relationship
9.3.1 Trans-generational Constraints and the Expansion of Functional Space
9.4 "Dynamical Decoupling": A Key Principle to Understand the Evolutionary Development of Complex Material Organizations
9.5 Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 10: Organization and Inheritance in Twenty-First-Century Evolutionary Biology
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Toward a More Organization-Centered Framework for Twenty-First-Century Evolutionary Biology
10.2.1 An Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to Fill in the Explanatory Gaps of the Gene-Centered Framework
10.2.2 Focus on Organisms and Introduction of an Organizational Thinking
10.2.3 From a Heuristic of Replication to a Heuristic of Collaboration
10.2.4 A Missing Organizational Perspective of Biological Inheritance?
10.3 An Organizational Perspective of Biological Inheritance
10.3.1 Principles of an Organizational Perspective of Biological Inheritance
10.3.2 Inheritance and Organization: Toward the Conception of Multifarious Heritable Variations
10.3.3 Inheritance and Organization: An Approach Suited to the Heuristic of Collaboration.
10.4 Explanatory Value and Theoretical Implications of an Organizational Perspective on Biological Inheritance for Evolutionary Thinking
10.4.1 Stabilization of Non-genetic Acquisitions and Evolution of Non-standard Biological Systems
10.4.2 Perspectives on Fitness, Natural Selection, and Evolution
10.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 11: There Are No Intermediate Stages: An Organizational View on Development
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Puzzles and Challenges Within Theories of Development
11.2.1 Challenge 1: What Is Developmental Change, and Is It Restricted to Multicellular Organisms?
11.2.2 Challenge 2: Does Development Necessarily Start at Fertilization?
11.2.3 Challenge 3: Does Development Always Start at a Unicellular Bottleneck?
11.2.4 Challenge 4: Does Development Imply an Increase in Complexity?
11.2.5 Challenge 5: Does Development End at Reproductive Maturity?
11.2.6 Challenge 6: Are the Transitions Between Multicellular and Unicellular Forms in a Complex Life Cycle Development or Reproduction?
11.2.7 Challenge 7: Can Multispecies Assemblages Develop as One System?
11.3 Gestalt Switch: Adopting the Organizational Perspective
11.4 Toward an Organizational Account of Development
11.5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 12: Modeling Organogenesis from Biological First Principles
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Background Concepts
12.3 From Organicist Ideas to Principles for a Theory of Organisms
12.4 The Mammary Gland as an Organ Model for the Study of Morphogenesis
12.4.1 A 3D Culture Model for the Study of Mammary Gland Morphogenesis
12.5 From the 3D Culture Model to a Mathematical Model
12.5.1 Proliferation
12.5.2 Motility and Constraints to Motility
12.5.3 Determination of the System
12.6 Mathematical Model
12.6.1 Description of the Model.
12.6.2 Outcomes of the Mathematical Model
12.6.2.1 In a Globular Matrix
12.6.2.2 In a Fibrillar Matrix
12.7 The In Vitro System and the Organism
12.8 Conclusions
References
Chapter 13: From the Organizational Theory of Ecological Functions to a New Notion of Sustainability
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Philosophical Theories of Function and Their Approach to Teleology and Normativity
13.3 The Organizational Theory of Ecological Functions
13.4 Organizational Functions and the Individuation of Ecological Systems
13.4.1 Ascribing Organizational Functions in Non-equilibrium Ecology
13.4.2 On the Domain of the Organizational Theory of Ecological Functions
13.4.3 Modularity Analysis and the Identification of Ecological Systems Showing Tendency to Closure
13.5 Organizational Functions and Evolution
13.6 Ascribing Functions to Abiotic Items
13.7 A Word on Pluralism About Ecological Functions
13.8 From Organizational Functions to an Integrated Scientific and Ethical Approach to Sustainability
13.9 Concluding Remarks
References
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