| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Organization in biology/ edited by Matteo Mossio. |
| other author: |
Mossio, Matteo. |
| Published: |
Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2024., |
| Description: |
viii, 333 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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: An Organizational 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. |
| Contained By: |
Springer Nature eBook |
| Subject: |
Biological systems. - |
| Online resource: |
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38968-9 |
| ISBN: |
9783031389689 |