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An updated perspective on teleonomy

Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Abstract The analysis of proxy failure given by John et al. provides a good starting point for interdisciplinary discussions. Here, the discussion of teleonomy is extended and updated to include more recent discourse on the topic.
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The Role of Teleonomy in Evolution

Philosophy of Science, 1962
The papers presented at the Chicago Darwin Centennial suggest a fresh approach to the philosophical problem of ends in nature. In order to avoid the implications of “teleology,” assumed to refer only to the process of evolution as directed towards goals, the discussants use “teleonomy” in reference to the biological organism as end-directed (for ...
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Teleonomie und Teleologie in der Phylogenese

Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia, 1985
AbstractIf one connects teleonomy and teleology with growth, then self‐sustaining growth is teleonomie and maturing growth is teleologie. Teleonomie growth happens throughout the lifetime as a direct consequence of active metabolism. Teleologie growth ends with propagation maturity which would not happen without metabolism, but is an indirect activity ...
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Learning, Change, and Evolution: An Enquiry into the Teleonomy of Learning

1979
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses Waddington's comments about the need to establish the logic of the relationships between evolutionary processes and behavior. It solves the problem of paradox of unity versus diversity. This is done by actually teasing out learning's teleonomic universals.
H.C. Plotkin, F.J. Odling-Smee
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Evolution “On Purpose”: Teleonomy in Living Systems

Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith
EVOLUTION "ON PURPOSE": Teleonomy in Living Systems by Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro, Richard I. Vane-Wright, and Addy Pross, eds., Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology, Gerd B. Müller, Thomas Pradeu, and Katrin Schäfer, eds. The MIT Press, 2023. 390 pages including index. Paperback; $75.00.
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Teleology and Teleonomy of Autopoietic Systems

Voprosy filosofii
The article is dedicated to the study of concepts of goal-directedness in the philo­sophy of biology, such as teleology and teleonomy. The author analyzes the his­torical evolution of ideas of purposiveness in 20th-century philosophy of biology, critiques teleological approaches in the context of modern evolutionary theory, and explores contemporary ...
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teleonomy, n.

2023
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Teleonomy, Swampman, and His Head

2000
I argue that teleosemantics is not needed for ascription of mental content to mental states of persons.
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Internal Performance Indicators: The Endogenous Teleonomy

2022
Patrizia Gazzola, Stefano Amelio
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Teleonomie

2010
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