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049			_aMAIN
245	0	0	_aNature alive : _bessays on the emergence and evolution of living agents / _cedited by Adam C. Scarfe.
264		1	_aNewcastle upon Tyne, UK : _bCambridge Scholars Publishing, _c2018.
300			_a1 online resource (xxiii, 302 pages) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages ) and index.
520			_a"This volume pays homage to Alfred North Whitehead's (1861-1947) profound lecture and essay entitled "Nature Alive," which was one of his most mature expressions of his process-relational metaphysics - a holistic conceptual framework that renders vivid the dynamic character of the natural world and the intrinsic purposiveness, selective agency, and creativity of living organisms. Inspired by, but not beholden to, Whitehead's process metaphysical "lens," the contributors to this volume bring a multiplicity of philosophical orientations to the table in challenging the mechanistic and reductionistic neo-Darwinian paradigm that is still dominant today in the life sciences. Mechanistic neo-Darwinism views nature and living organisms as "machines," namely, as networks of externally related and linear causal "switches," "dials," "levers," "pulleys," and "gears," that are "at the ready" for technological and biotechnological manipulation. Seeking a conceptual framework and a language that are more adequate to the study of the natural world and of living creatures than the mechanistic orientation, the contributors to this volume explore several of the "New Frontiers of Biology," which are areas of biology whose findings to some extent go beyond the explanatory confines of the Modern Synthesis of natural selection and genetics. Most notably, emergence theory, the theory of organic selection, epigenetics, homeostasis, chronobiology, and autopoiesis research can provide us with key insights that can assist us in explaining how living agents emerged, including the evolutionary origins of mentality, consciousness, and mind. Moreover, attention to the "New Frontiers of Biology" can serve to "re-enchant" our understanding of the natural world and to prevent ecological devastation, through a restoration to objectivity of notions such as "intrinsic purposiveness," "selective agency," "creativity," and "intrinsic value."-- _cBack cover.
505	0	0	_tNature alive : the emergence and evolution of living agents / _rLukasz Lamza and Adam C. Scarfe -- _tIs environmental philosophy compatible with mechanistic neo-Darwinism? : organismic agency, intrinsic purposiveness, and the "new frontiers" of biology / _rAdam C. Scarfe -- _tCells, organisms, colonies, communities : the fuzziness of individuality in modern biology / _rLukasz Lamza -- _tThe emergence of animal mind : shrinking the explanatory gap / _rLawrence Cahoone -- _tPossibility, spontaneity, and the general order of nature : Toward a general theory of emergence / _rPhilip Rose -- _tThe physiological basis of organismic creativity / _rGernot G. Falkner and Renate Falkner -- _tOrganismic intricacy : time, possibility, and nonrandom heritable novelty / _rNeil Dunaetz -- _tBeyond mechanism, toward re-enchantment / _rPhilip Tryon.
588	0		_aPrint version record.
590			_aMaster record variable field(s) change: 072, 082
650		0	_aLife _xOrigin. _9283
650		0	_aEvolution (Biology) _9282
650		0	_aMechanism (Philosophy) _9239703
650		0	_aNaturalism. _9231990
650		0	_aReductionism. _9231022
650		7	_aSCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution. _2bisacsh _94642
655		4	_aElectronic books. _9396
700	1		_aScarfe, Adam Christian, _d1972- _eeditor. _9680094
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tNature alive. _dNewcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018 _z152750610X _w(OCoLC)1019745548
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