The riddle of organismal agency : new historical and philosophical reflections
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The riddle of organismal agency : new historical and philosophical reflections
（History and philosophy of biology / series editors, Dawn M Digrius, Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther）
Routledge, 2025
- : hardback
Available at / 1 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Content Type: text (ncrcontent), Media Type: unmediated (ncrmedia), Carrier Type: volume (ncrcarrier)
Other editors: Jan Baedke, Guido I. Prieto, Gregory Radick
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"The Riddle of Organismal Agency brings together historians, philosophers and scientists for an interdisciplinary re-assessment of one of the long-standing problems in the scientific understanding of life. Marshalling insights from diverse sciences including physiology, comparative psychology, developmental biology, and evolutionary biology, the book provides an up-to-date survey of approaches to non-human organisms as agents, capable of performing activities serving their own goals such as surviving or reproducing, and whose doings in the world are thus to be explained teleologically. From an Integrated History and Philosophy of Science perspective, the book contributes to a better conceptual and theoretical understanding of organismal agency, advancing some suggestions on how to study it empirically and how to frame it in relation to wider scientific and philosophical traditions. It also provides new historical entry points for examining the deployment, trajectories and challenges of agential views
