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Teleonomy as a Form of Purposiveness: An Analysis in Contemporary Theoretical Biology
openPer descrivere il vivente nelle sue diverse espressioni, filosofi naturali e naturalisti sono spesso ricorsi alla nozione di fine. Il rigetto del teleologico è diventato però strutturale per le scienze contemporanee, cosicché negli anni di ...
DI TOMMASO, MARCO
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Non-human contributions to personality neuroscience - from fish through primates. An introduction to the special issue. [PDF]
Lages YV, McNaughton N.
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This interpretive inquiry applies three theories dealing with interpersonal conflict to a career related conversation between a father and his adolescent son.
Leese, Jeffrey Robert
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Situating physiology within evolutionary theory. [PDF]
Traditionally defined as the science of the living, or as the field that beyond anatomical structure and bodily form studies functional organization and behaviour, physiology has long been excluded from evolutionary research. The main
Gontier, Nathalie
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Endosimbiotic design of robots for operating in uninhabitable places
This paper proposes a method of design emulating biological phenomena in artificial systems. The artifacts are robots that operate in inhospitable scenarios and the emulation is the synergistic partnership between a cell and heterotrophic bacteria ...
Burgos Leiva, Camila +1 more
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Viral Law: Life, Death, Difference, and Indifference from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19. [PDF]
Featherstone M.
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Ontological Naturalism and the Role of Supervenience in Biological Evolution
To overcome the traditional opposition between the methodological and the ontological naturalism, in the paper the notion of supervenience is proposed as an explanatory category which facilitates developing a version of nonreductionist emergentism.
Życiński, Józef
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Zoom Out Camera! The Reflexive Character of an Enactive Account. [PDF]
Cummins F.
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The main feature of an act of volition is its teleonomy. In a given situation (Sit1), a state of things (X) is not actual or valid but its actualisation is judged necessary by a source of judgment (Si).
Merle, Jean-Marie
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