Evolution "On Purpose"
Edited by Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro and Richard I. Vane-Wright
Edited by Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro and Richard I. Vane-Wright
Edited by Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro and Richard I. Vane-Wright
Edited by Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro and Richard I. Vane-Wright
Edited by Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro and Richard I. Vane-Wright
Edited by Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro and Richard I. Vane-Wright
Part of Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
Part of Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
Part of Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
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$75.00
Aug 22, 2023 | ISBN 9780262546409
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Aug 22, 2023 | ISBN 9780262376013
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Aug 22, 2023 | ISBN 9780262376020
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Table Of Contents
Series Foreword vii
Preface ix
1 Introduction 1
Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro, Richard I. Vane-Wright, and Addy Pross
2 Teleonomy in Evolution: “The Ghost in the Machine” 11
Peter A. Corning
3 Cellular Basis of Cognition in Evolution: From Protists and Fungi Up to Animals, Plants, and Root-Fungal Networks 33
Frantisek Baluska, William B. Miller Jr., and Arthur S. Reber
4 Constructing “On Purpose”: How Niche Construction Affects Natural Selection 59
Dominik Deffner
5 Relational Agency: A New Ontology for Coevolving Systems 79
Francis Heylighen
6 Teleonomic Anticipatory Configurations in Biological Evolution: The Downward Dynamical Nature of Goal-Directedness 105
Abir U. Igamberdiev
7 From Teleonomy to Mentally Driven Goal-Directed Behavior: Evolutionary Considerations 119
Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg
8 Beyond the Newtonian Paradigm: A Statistical Mechanics of Emergence 141
Stuart A. Kauffman and Andrea Roli
9 On the Concept of Meaning in Biology 161
Kalevi Kull
10 Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis as a Teleonomic Process 175
Michael Levin
11 Form, Function, Agency: Sources of Natural Purpose in Animal Evolution 199
Stuart A. Newman
12 How Purposive Agency Became Banned from Evolutionary Biology 221
Denis Noble and Raymond Noble
13 Goal Attributions in Biology: Objective Fact, Anthropomorphic Bias, or Valuable Heuristic? 237
Samir Okasha
14 Toward the Physicalization of Biology: Seeking the Chemical Origin of Cognition 257
Robert Pascal and Addy Pross
15 Evolutionary Change Is Naturally Biological and Purposeful 275
James A. Shapiro
16 Agency, Teleonomy, Purpose, and Evolutionary Change in Plant Systems 299
Anthony Trewavas
17 Agency, Goal Orientation, and Evolutionary Explanations 325
Tobias Uller
18 Evolutionary Foundationalism: The Myth of the Chemical Given 341
Denis M. Walsh
Contributors 363
Index 365
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