Teleonomy: Revisiting a Proposed Conceptual Replacement for Teleology [PDF]
Biological Theory, 2023 AbstractThe concept of teleonomy has been attracting renewed attention recently. This is based on the idea that teleonomy provides a useful conceptual replacement for teleology, and even that it constitutes an indispensable resource for thinking biologically about purposes. However, both these claims are open to question.
Alan C Love, Max Dresow, Love Alan C
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The The Teleological Program. Ernst Mayr’s Teleonomy from Philosophy to Cybernetics (or Kant’s Revenge) [PDF]
Aisthesis, 2022 Teleology is still a source of embarrassment for the natural sciences and in particular for biology that seems unable to describe and explain the genesis and structure of life without it. How is it possible for something not yet existing to determine the
Francesco Vitale
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A Pyrrhic Victory for Teleonomy [PDF]
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2002 (2002). A Pyrrhic Victory for Teleonomy. Australasian Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 80, No. 3, pp. 372-377.
Braddon-Mitchell, David, Jackson, Frank
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Teleonomy: The Feedback Circuit Involving Information and Thermodynamic Processes [PDF]
Journal of Modern Physics, 2011 Informational and entropic - metabolic aspects are strictly intertwined in organisms. An overview of bacterial chemotaxis is presented as a good and simple model to study these issues. In particular, the paper shall focus on the ability of the organism to restore its homeostasis not only from a metabolic point of view but also from an informational ...
Gennaro Auletta
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Causal Capabilities of Teleology and Teleonomy in Life and Evolution [PDF]
Organon F, 2023 Teleological causes have been generally disfavored in biological explanations because they have been thought to lack rigor or act as stand-ins for non-teleological processes which are simply not yet understood sufficiently.
Jonathan Bartlett
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What homeostasis leaves out: Kinorhesis, a physiological principle of transformation. [PDF]
J PhysiolThe Journal of Physiology, Volume 604, Issue 10, Page 3709-3713, 15 May 2026.
Horseman ND.
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Living Control Systems: Exploring a Teleonomic Account of Behavior in Apis mellifera [PDF]
InsectsSelf-regulatory foraging behavior in honey bees (Apis mellifera) was investigated using the framework of Perceptual Control Theory (PCT). We developed a PCT-based model to describe how bees maintain goal-directed behavior, specifically targeting a ...
Ian T. Jones +2 more
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A Metric for the Entropic Purpose of a System [PDF]
EntropyPurpose in systems is considered to be beyond the purview of science since it is thought to be intrinsically personal. However, just as Claude Shannon was able to define an impersonal measure of information, so we formally define the (impersonal ...
Michael C. Parker +2 more
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Christian Bohr. Discoverer of Homotropic and Heterotopic Allostery: Periods Leading up to Bohr's Life, Work, and Beyond. Was Bohr a Vitalist and Right About a "Specific Activity"? [PDF]
Acta Physiol (Oxf)ABSTRACT This essay recounts and revisits the scientific contributions of Christian Bohr, highlighting his pivotal role in discovering allostery about 120 years ago. Bohr's meticulous experimentation led to identifying two distinct forms of allostery: homotropic (single‐ligand) and heterotropic (multi‐ligand), the latter widely recognized as the Bohr ...
Bindslev N.
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Protein Sequences Recapitulate Genetic Code Evolution [PDF]
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2018 Several hypotheses predict ranks of amino acid assignments to genetic code's codons. Analyses here show that average positions of amino acid species in proteins correspond to assignment ranks, in particular as predicted by Juke's neutral mutation ...
Hervé Seligmann
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