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The Misappropriation of Teleonomy [PDF]

, 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 Paradigm Shift in Biology? [PDF]

Information, 2010
All new developments in biology deal with the issue of the complexity of organisms, often pointing out the necessity to update our current understanding.
Gennaro Auletta
doaj   +2 more sources

Translation as a Factor of Social Teleonomy [PDF]

TTR, 2012
This article considers translation as a factor in the genesis of social macro-formations—ethnoses and superethnoses. The research combines Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory, Lem Gumilev’s theory of ethnogenesis and the concept of teleonomy borrowed from evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr in order to demonstrate the ethnogenetic
Tyulenev, Sergey, Sergey Tyulenev
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Teleology and Teleonomy in Behavior Analysis [PDF]

The Behavior Analyst, 1994
Teleological descriptions and explanations refer to purpose as consequent to a phenomenon. They become nonteleological if purpose is represented as antecedent to the phenomenon. Such nonteleological statements are called teleonomic, especially when they refer to antecedent genetic "programs." In behavior analysis, purpose is attributed to the organism ...
Hayne W. Reese
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Teleonomy as a problem of self-causation [PDF]

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2022
AbstractA theoretical framework is provided to explore teleonomy as a problem of self-causation, distinct from upward, downward and reticulate causation. Causality theories in biology are often formulated within hierarchy theories, where causation is conceptualized as running up or down the rungs of a ladder-like hierarchy or, more recently, as moving ...
Nathalie Gontier, Gontier, Nathalie
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The Multiscale Wisdom of the Body: Collective Intelligence as a Tractable Interface for Next-Generation Biomedicine. [PDF]

Bioessays
Current biomedical interventions largely focus on bottom‐up techniques targeting the molecular hardware. Regenerative medicine will increasingly exploit top‐down approaches inspired by concepts in the behavioral and information sciences to target the collective intelligence of cells in vivo.
Levin M.
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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.
Corning Peter A, Peter A Corning
exaly   +2 more sources

Completeness of the Present System of Creation from the Perspective of Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra [PDF]

حکمت صدرایی, 2012
The best possible system of creation is one of the issues discussed by different scholars.Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra are among those raising this issue in a comprehensive way.
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Teleology in the Ayala’s F. J. biophilosophic thought [PDF]

Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2015
Teleology is today one of the most important issues on Biology debate. Prof. F. J. Ayala strongly supports the uses of teleological explanations in Biology.
Diego Cano Espinosa
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Teleonomy in Evolution: “The Ghost in the Machine”

, 2023
Corning Peter A, Peter A Corning
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