Daniel J. Nicholson is a philosopher of biology based at Egenis, The Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, at the University of Exeter. Prior to that, he held appointments at Tel Aviv University and at the KLI Institute near Vienna. He is interested in ontological issues, such as the nature of the organism, and epistemic ones, such as the adequacy of mechanistic explanations. He is also interested in general philosophy of science, as well as in the history of theoretical biology. John Dupre is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Egenis, The Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, at the University of Exeter. He has formerly held posts at Oxford, Birkbeck College, London, and Stanford, and visiting chairs at the University of Amsterdam and Cambridge. He has wide-ranging interests in the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of science generally, and naturalistic, empirically grounded metaphysics. He is a former president of the British Society for Philosophy of Science, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Foreword, Johannes Jaeger Part I: Introduction 1. Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology, John Dupre & Daniel J. Nicholson Part II: Metaphysics 2. Processes and Precipitates, Peter Simons 3. Dispositionalism: A Dynamic Theory of Causation, Rani Lill Anjum & Stephen Mumford 4. Biological Processes: Criteria of Identity and Persistence, James DiFrisco 5. Genidentity and Biological Processes, Thomas Pradeu 6. Ontological Tools for the Process Turn in Biology: Some Basic Notions of General Process Theory, Johanna Seibt Part III: Organisms 7. Reconceptualizing the Organism: From Complex Machine to Flowing Stream, Daniel J. Nicholson 8. Objectcy and Agency: Towards a Methodological Vitalism, Denis Walsh 9. Symbiosis, Transient Biological Individuality, and Evolutionary Processes, Frederic Bouchard 10. From Organizations of Processes to Organisms and Other Biological Individuals, Argyris Arnellos Part IV: Development and Education 11. Developmental Systems Theory as a Process Theory, Paul Griffiths & Karola Stotz 12. Waddington's Processual Epigenetics and the Debate over Cryptic Variability, Flavia Fabris 13. Capturing Processes: The Interplay of Modelling Strategies and Conceptual Understanding in Developmental Biology, Laura Nuno de la Rosa 14. Intersecting Processes are Necessary Explanantia for Evolutionary Biology, but Challenge Retrodiction, Eric Bapteste & Gemma Anderson Part IV: Implications and Applications 15. A Process Ontology for Macromolecular Biology, Stephan Guttinger 16. A Processual Perspective on Cancer, Marta Bertolaso & John Dupre 17. Measuring the World: Olfaction as a Process Model of Perception, Ann-Sophie Barwich 18. Persons as Biological Processes: A Bio-Processual Way Out of the Personal Identity Dilemma, Anne Sophie Meincke
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