Titlebook: Organismal Agency; Biological Concepts Jana Švorcová Book 2024 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to

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Schelling’s Philosophy of Natureiculary in Germany, and many of its parts are highly inspirational to this day. The first part presents Schelling’s general approach to explaining phenomena from living nature. His goal was to find a middle way between materialism, which tends to reduce life to mechanical and chemical processes, and

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Organismic Teleology and Agency Beyond Systems Theories: A Process-Metaphysical Perspectivees in how these concepts are understood in contemporary biology and philosophy of biology, and to show how a process-metaphysical approach to organisms can help us overcome these problems. To this purpose, we analyse the understanding of teleology and agency in contemporary biological systems theori

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The Becoming of Identity: A Process-Ontological View on the Relational Co-existence of Biological Bengagement with the environment, its continued maintenance of homeostasis, its ability to collaborate with other beings and the like, if it did not persist over time, if it did not have a stable identity? I use the term ‘biological being’ to refer to life at any level of complexity, any level of orga

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Biological Modularity and the Origins of Agencyent modules. This is especially true of entities that could be called agents, organisms included. In this chapter, we summarise what modularity is and why we encounter it in living nature so often. A search for the origins and subsequent development of a modular arrangement in systems that undergo e

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Agential Patterns in Development and Evolution: Towards an Anti-entropic Approach to the Divergence comparative and biosemiotic approaches. At the same time, the question of how behavioural and other proximal phenotypic factors may potentially drive developmental and evolutionary variation remains open, particularly in relation to life-history and allometric theory (where the issue of agency has

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Organisms as Agents in Zoosemiotic Perspective: The Case of Umwelt Reversionlloanimals and ecological relations through the emic perspective. This chapter shows certain changes that take place in an animal’s perceptual world and are mirrored in their operational world. The zoosemiotic analysis will be based on the Umwelt theory and work chiefly with a case study of reintrod

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Agency and Appearance: Reading the Face of Lifeationship between existence and appearance. Although in the following we restrict our interest to the visual dimension, one could conceive of other modalities and their interactions along similar lines. All lineages which led to complex multicellularity have either one or both of the following advan