Organization in Biology

Matteo Mossio

2023年11月 · History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences 第 33 冊 · Springer Nature

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This open access book assesses the prospects of (re)adopting organization as a pivotal concept in biology. It shows how organization can nourish biological thinking and practice, by reconnecting with the idea of biology as the science of organized systems. The book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art picture of the characterizations and uses of the concept of organization in both biological science and philosophy of biology. It also deals with a variety of themes – including evolution, organogenesis, heredity, cognition and ecology – with respect to which the concept of organization can guide the elaboration of original models and new experimental protocols. It will be of interest to biologists and scholars working in philosophy of science alike.

關於作者

Matteo Mossio is a philosopher of biology. He is chargé de recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and full member of the IHPST, in Paris, France. Matteo Mossio works mainly in the philosophy and theory of biological autonomy, and has focused on concepts as organization, agency, function, emergence, identity and heredity. He published numerous articles in international philosophical and scientific journals and, in 2015, he coauthored with Alvaro Moreno a full monograph on autonomy, which received substantial coverage in the literature. Matteo Mossio teaches in the Philosophy Program of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne.