➡️ New article out! ⬅️ A Mark of the Noncognitive by M. Chirimuuta Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Профиль
Biological Theory
Профиль VivelyJournal devoted to theoretical advances in the fields of biology and cognition, with an emphasis on the conceptual integration of #EvoDevo approaches. Published by @kli.ac.at springer.com/journal/13752
➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Ecoduality by Robert E. Ulanowicz Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Ecoduality - Biological TheoryDualism has been a viable concept in physics since the 1920s, when Arthur Compton demonstrated the corpuscular nature of photons as distinct from their wave nature. More recently, information theory a...link.springer.com➡️ New article out! ⬅️ What Lives? A Meta-Analysis of Diverse Opinions on the Definition of Life by Reed Bender, Karina Kofman, Blaise Agüera y Arcas & Michael Levin (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @drmichaellevin.bsky.social) Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
What Lives? A Meta-Analysis of Diverse Opinions on the Definition of Life - Biological TheoryThe question of "what is life?" has challenged scientists and philosophers for centuries, producing an array of definitions that reflect both the mystery of its emergence and the diversity of discipli...link.springer.com📣🌟The June issue of Biological Theory, a thematic collection on “Continually Discovering Complexity: Essays in Honor of William Bechtel”, is out now! link.springer.com/journal/1375... Read the editors’ summary, with free reading links for all the articles here: www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...
➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Integrative Neurobiology and Cultural Context Theory: The Role of Cultural Neurobiological Inheritance Systems by Daniel O. Larson, Isabella Sarto-Jackson & Barbara Fischer Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Integrative Neurobiology and Cultural Context Theory: The Role of Cultural Neurobiological Inheritance Systems - Biological TheoryIn this reflection article, we present a new theoretical perspective, which we term integrative neurobiology and cultural context (INCC) theory. Traditionally, social scientists have viewed the human ...link.springer.com➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Formalization Does Not Entail Neutrality: Evolutionary Game Theory and the Sociobiology Controversy by Zvi Hasnes-Beninson (@zvihb.bsky.social) Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Agency as the Defining Activity of Life: A Viability-Oriented Framework Integrating Process and Scale by Roger D. Spencer Free reading link: rdcu.be/fkZe3
➡️ New article out! ⬅️ The Common Status of Biological Objects by Marc-Antoine Leveau Free reading link: rdcu.be/fkY86
➡️ New article out! ⬅️ The Evolution of Functional Endogenous Retroviruses by Ruben N. Jorritsma Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
➡️ New article out! ⬅️ The Pragmatic Approach to Explanation Revamped and Remotivated by Arnon Levy Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Tumorigenesis as a Trauma Response: The Fragmentation of Morphogenetic Memory Drives Neoplastic Dissociation by Jordan Strasser Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Tumorigenesis as a Trauma Response: The Fragmentation of Morphogenetic Memory Drives Neoplastic Dissociation - Biological TheoryBiological Theory - The persistence of living systems depends on their capacity to sense, distribute, and resolve stress. Across evolution, this pressure shaped increasingly integrated...link.springer.com➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Continually Discovering Complexity: Introduction to the Special Issue by William Bechtel & Daniel C. Burnston Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Multiple Realizability: Still Something After All These Years by Jennifer Mundale Free reading link: rdcu.be/fezBU
➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Norms, Cooperation, and Uncertainty by Kim Sterelny & Carl Brusse Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
➡️ New article out! ⬅️ There Is No Measurement Error in Biology by Philipp Mitteroecker Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📣🌟The March issue of Biological Theory is out! link.springer.com/journal/1375... Read the editors’ summary of the latest issue, with free reading links for all the articles here: www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...
➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Biological Complexity and Cognitive Evolution by Peter Jedlicka, Jaroslav Varchola & Jakub Betinsky Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
➡️ New article out! ⬅️ From the Elephant to Butyric Acid Bacterium—It Is [Not] All the Same! How the Genetic Code Is Not Universal by Janella Baxter Free reading link: rdcu.be/e9HXR
➡️ New article out! ⬅️ The Force of Experience: A Biophysical Hypothesis of a Confined Interaction in Living Neural Systems by Fredric Schiffer Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Force of Experience: A Biophysical Hypothesis of a Confined Interaction in Living Neural Systems - Biological TheoryStandard physicalism often renders subjective experience epiphenomenal, while interactionist accounts struggle to reconcile mental causation with energy conservation. We propose the force of experienc...link.springer.com➡️ New Classics in Biological Theory article out! ⬅️ Revisiting Rosenblueth, Wiener, and Bigelow’s “Behavior, Purpose and Teleology” (1943) by Auguste Nahas (@augustenahas.bsky.social) Open access, also to Rosenblueth et al. (1943) (supplementary material) on: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Revisiting Rosenblueth, Wiener, and Bigelow’s “Behavior, Purpose and Teleology” (1943) - Biological TheoryBiological Theory - This article examines Rosenblueth, Wiener, and Bigelow’s 1943 article “Behavior, Purpose and Teleology”, which is widely remembered both as the foundational...link.springer.com