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Cooperation and the Gradual Emergence of Life and Teleonomy

2020
A wide consensus among researchers into the origins of life states that simple life, in its origins, contained at least three molecular structures: replicators, metabolic enzymes, and membranes. In itself, this view allows to hypothesize that, in the path leading to this self-supporting triad, many partial combinations of these three elements and their
Alejandro Rosas, Juan Diego Morales
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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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Teleonomy, legibility, and diversity: Do we need more “proxynomics”?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Abstract When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. (Strathern, 1997) Our target article set out with an ambitious goal: To provide a unified account of the disparate descriptions of proxy failure across not only social and natural sciences but also engineering and artificial intelligence research ...
Oliver Braganza, Yohan J. John, Leigh Caldwell, Dakota E. McCoy   +3 more
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A Resolution Between Mentalism and Teleonomy, or Fodder for a Continuing Dialogue?

Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 2010
Scientists, including psychologists, are often disturbed by the psychological interpretation of animal behavior. Nick Thompson offered a teleonomic approach to the use of psychological terms to describe behavior that avoided the assumption that mental states (or other entities or processes) caused the behavior.
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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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Evolutionary Teleonomy as a Unifying Principle for the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

BIO-Complexity, 2017
Many people underestimate the effect that unifying principles have on the study of biology. Unifying principles are used to provide simplifying assumptions to complex problems which allow them to be effectively tackled by the tools at hand.
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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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