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Mind Everywhere: A Framework for Conceptualizing Goal-Directedness in Biology and Other Domains-Part Two. [PDF]

Biol Theory
Levin M, Resnik DB.
europepmc   +1 more source

Evolutionary trends and goal directedness. [PDF]

Synthese, 2023
McShea DW.
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Aristotle's Teleology and Craft-Nature Distinction

https://rdc.reed.edu/v1/resources/e07d0ba0-919b-449a-8fca-3cda9681465e/thumb/128.jpgIf we are to assess the merits of teleology, we would do well to first get clear about what the concept means.
Pluta, Roan
core  

Post-Tantric Teleology [PDF]

Teleological thinking is often viewed with suspicion in modern philosophy, especially when it is linked to ideas of salvation or to fixed final states.
Rudolph, Hans-Joachim
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The Form of Agency

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philosophers often think agency is essentially connected with rationality, intention, or control. However, Minimalists argue that agency is just the power to cause a change; acids and boulders are agents too. Many philosophers treat Minimalism as a wild outlier, assuming its falsity without argument.
William Hornett
wiley   +1 more source

Genealogies of organizational closure: from logical paradox to mind in life. [PDF]

Front Artif Intell
Rubin S, Roli A, Stano P, Damiano L.
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Perceiving Particulars

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Causalists contend that you see a specific object (rather than a lookalike, or no object at all) because that object sits at the beginning of an appropriate causal chain that terminates in your visual experience. We argue that neither standard causalists nor their non‐causalist opponents can adequately accommodate a striking asymmetry between ...
Dominic Alford‐Duguid, Umrao Sethi
wiley   +1 more source

Excessive teleological thinking is driven by aberrant associations and not by failure of reasoning. [PDF]

iScience, 2023
Ongchoco JDK, Castiello S, Corlett PR.
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Animal Logic: Locke and the Nature of Inference

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can animals reason? If so, what would their reasoning consist in, and how, if at all, would it differ from its human counterpart? On these questions, John Locke stakes out a position that also merits consideration today. I argue that, for Locke, reasoning is a matter of the subject's construing her mental states as support for a conclusion ...
Walter Ott
wiley   +1 more source

Foundational issues of network models in biology. [PDF]

Biol Cybern
Bondi D, Bondi D.
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