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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.
Max Dresow, Alan C Love, Dresow Max
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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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The Misappropriation of Teleonomy
, 1987 The word “teleonomy” has been proposed to refer to the study of goal-directed processes without the encumbrances of teleological explanations. Those who have proposed the new term have disagreed about which of the encumbrances of teleological thought they were seeking to avoid.
Nicholas S Thompson
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A Pyrrhic Victory for Teleonomy
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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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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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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Teleonomy and the proximate–ultimate distinction revisited
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2019 Abstract It is now widely accepted that living systems exhibit an internal teleology (or teleonomy), but there are conflicting views about how this should be interpreted. Colin Pittendrigh and others have defined teleonomy broadly. It encompasses all ‘proximate’ (functional) biological phenomena.
Peter A Corning, Corning Peter A
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