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Adolf Portmann : A Thinker of Self-Expressive Life / / edited by Filip Jaroš, Jiří Klouda
| Adolf Portmann : A Thinker of Self-Expressive Life / / edited by Filip Jaroš, Jiří Klouda |
| Autore | Jaros Filip |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
| Disciplina | 570.1 |
| Collana | Biosemiotics |
| Soggetto topico |
Biology - Philosophy
Semiotics Philosophy Philosophy - History Philosophy of Biology History of Philosophy |
| ISBN | 3-030-67810-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction. Part1. Paving a Path to the New Biology: Chapter1. New Fronts of Biological Work -- Chapter2. The Language of Nature Reread -- Part2. Biology, Biosemiotics, Anthropology. Chapter 3. The Researcher and the Teacher -- Chapter4. Novel Ecological Mismatches in the Light of Jakob von Uexküll’s and Adolf Portmann’s Works -- Chapter5. Revisiting Basal Anthropology: A Developmental Approach to Human Evolution and Sociality -- Chapter6. Portmann’s View on Anthropological Difference -- Part3. Philosophical Aspects of Portmann’s Work: Chapter7. Portmann, Goethe and Modern Biology: Two and a Half Ways of Looking at Nature -- Chapter 8. Playing Appearances: On Some Aspects of Portmann’s Contribution to Philosophical Aesthetics -- Chapter9. Ptolemaic Man and Copernican Man: In Favor of “Depth Anthropology -- Chapter 10. The “New Morphology” Between Biology and Philosophy: The Hermeneutic Dimension of Portmann’s Thought -- Part4. Historical Context and Later Reception: Chapter11. The Beauty of Organisms: Biological Aesthetics Between Portmann and Darwin -- Chapter 12. On the Brink of the Expressible: Adolf Portmann Meets Carl Gustav Jung on Eranos Ground -- Chapter 13. The Czech Reception of Portmann. |
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Aristotle on Meaning in the Living World : A Biosemiotic Perspective / / by Peter N. Jackson
| Aristotle on Meaning in the Living World : A Biosemiotic Perspective / / by Peter N. Jackson |
| Autore | Jackson Peter N |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2025.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (592 pages) |
| Disciplina | 401.4 |
| Collana | Biosemiotics |
| Soggetto topico |
Semiotics
Language and languages - Philosophy Biology - Philosophy Biology Philosophy of Language Philosophy of Biology Biological Sciences |
| ISBN | 9783032006028 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Aristotle in His Own Day -- Aristotle in Our Own Day -- Our Philosophical Context -- Aristotle on Meaning in Life -- Aristotle and the Problem of Abstraction -- Aristotle and the Philosophy of Ousia -- Can we Learn from Aristotles Science Today -- Can we Learn from Aristotles Biology Today -- Can we Learn from Aristotles Philosophy Today -- The Battle of the Gods and Giants -- Conclusions. |
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Jackson Peter N
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Beyond Nature and Nurture : Perspectives on Human Multidimensionality / / edited by Javier Pérez-Jara, Íñigo Ongay
| Beyond Nature and Nurture : Perspectives on Human Multidimensionality / / edited by Javier Pérez-Jara, Íñigo Ongay |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2025.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (VI, 296 p. 4 illus.) |
| Disciplina | 570.1 |
| Collana | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science |
| Soggetto topico |
Biology - Philosophy
Sociology - Philosophy Perception Evolutionary developmental biology Philosophy of Biology Philosophy of Sociology Evolutionary Developmental Biology |
| ISBN | 3-031-87715-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1 Introduction: From the Ancient Greek Sophists’ Binary Between Physis and Nomos to the Present (Javier Pérez-Jara and Íñigo Ongay) -- Part I The Nature vs Nurture Debate -- 2 Nature vs nurture: time to let it go (Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Kaplan) -- 3 Human Nature. A Process Perspective (John Dupré) -- 4 Positioning Sociology in the Nature vs Nurture Debate – An Ongoing Project (Ullica Segerstrale) -- 5 Cultural Sociology and the Relative Independence of Culture: An Ontological and Epistemological Analysis (Javier Pérez-Jara) -- 6 Psychogenesis in Evolution and History (José-Carlos Sánchez-González) -- 7 Neither Nature nor Nurture: on the inadequateness of innatism and environmentalism in Biology and Psychology (Íñigo Ongay) -- 8 Is Science and Ideology? (Gustavo E. Romero) -- 9 Nature, Nurture, and Nous: The Role of Reflection and Reason in the Nature-Nurture Debate (Liane Gabora and Cosette Robertson) -- Part II Case Studies in the Nature vs Nurture Debate -- 10 Naturalism of Mother’s Milk and its Historical Change in Japan – Modernization of Nature as Normative Concept (Shinji Kajitani) -- 11 Sociocultural factors influencing fathers’ involvement in childcare: A historical perspective of Japan’s Edo and Meiji periods (Atsuko Fujino) -- 12 Culture and the Microbiome-Gut-Brain (Gabe Ignatow) -- 13 From Territorial Behavior to Imagined Territories and Back – Exploring Spatiality in International Relations (Jun J. Nohara) -- 14 The constitutive component of sexes, genders, and sexualities: The case of Thailand (Porranee Singpliam) -- 15 Naturalizing the “Unnatural” Beauty: Making Sense of the Iconic Performance of the Body in the Social Media Platform of China (Renxue Wan) -- 16 Nature loves variety. On the “Backlash” against Gender Equal Policies in Japan (Kimio Ito). |
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Biocommunication of Animals / / edited by Guenther Witzany
| Biocommunication of Animals / / edited by Guenther Witzany |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (421 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.44 |
| Soggetto topico |
Biotic communities
Sociolinguistics Physiology Biochemistry Behavioral sciences Biology—Philosophy Community & Population Ecology Animal Physiology Animal Biochemistry Behavioral Sciences Philosophy of Biology |
| ISBN | 94-007-7414-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface; Günther Witzany -- 1. Why Biocommunication of Animals?; Günther Witzany -- 2. Signs of Communication in Chimpanzees; Mary Lee A. Jensvold et al -- 3. African and Asian elephant vocal communication: A cross-species comparison; Angela Stoeger, Shermin de Silva -- 4. The information content of wolf (and dog) social communication; Tamás Faragó et al -- 5. Social origin of vocal communication in rodents; Stefan M. Brudzynski -- 6. Why the caged mouse sings: Studies of the mouse ultrasonic song system and vocal behavior; Gustavo Arriaga -- 7. Vibrational Communication: Spiders to Kangaroo Rats; Jan A. Randall -- 8. Communicative Coordination in Bees; Günther Witzany -- 9. Social association brings out the altruism in an ant; Kenji Hara -- 10. Termite communication during different behavioral activities; Ana Maria Costa-Leonardo, Ives Haifig -- 11. Crows and Crow Feeders: Observations on Interspecific Semiotics; John M. Marzluff, Marc L. Miller -- 12. Interspecies communication with Grey Parrots: A tool for examining cognitive processing; Irene M. Pepperberg -- 13. Singing in space and time: the biology of birdsong; Marc Naguib, Katharina Riebel -- 14. Chemical persuasion in salamanders; Lynne Houck -- 15. Chelonian vocal Communication; Camila R. Ferrara et al -- 16. Cetacean Acoustic Communication; Laela S. Sayigh -- 17. Communication in the ultraviolet: unravelling the secret language of fish; Ulrike E. Siebeck -- 18. Young squeaker catfish can already talk and listen to their conspecifics; Walter Lechner -- 19. Cognition and recognition in the cephalopod mollusc Octopus vulgaris: coordinating interaction with environment and conspecifics; Elena Tricarico et al -- 20. How Corals coordinate and organize: an ecosystemic analysis based fractal properties; Pierre Madl, Günther Witzany -- 21. Nematode Communication; Yen-Ping Hsueh et al -- Index. |
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Biological Autonomy : A Philosophical and Theoretical Enquiry / / by Alvaro Moreno, Matteo Mossio
| Biological Autonomy : A Philosophical and Theoretical Enquiry / / by Alvaro Moreno, Matteo Mossio |
| Autore | Moreno Alvaro |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Disciplina | 574.01 |
| Collana | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
| Soggetto topico |
Biology - Philosophy
Bioinformatics Cognitive psychology Philosophy of Biology Computational and Systems Biology Cognitive Psychology |
| ISBN | 94-017-9837-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Life as autonomy -- I. Constraints and organisational closure -- II. Biological emergence and inter-levels causation -- III. Teleology, normativity, and functionality -- IV. Agency -- V. Evolution: the historical dimension of autonomy -- VI. Organisms and levels of autonomy -- VII. Cognition -- VIII. Opening conclusions -- Index. |
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Biological Robustness : Emerging Perspectives from within the Life Sciences / / edited by Marta Bertolaso, Silvia Caianiello, Emanuele Serrelli
| Biological Robustness : Emerging Perspectives from within the Life Sciences / / edited by Marta Bertolaso, Silvia Caianiello, Emanuele Serrelli |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 258 p. 26 illus., 15 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina |
570.1
572.838 |
| Collana | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
| Soggetto topico |
Biology - Philosophy
Bioinformatics Neurosciences Philosophy of nature Philosophy of Biology Computational and Systems Biology Neuroscience Philosophy of Nature |
| ISBN | 3-030-01198-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Is Biological Robustness Unique? -- 2. Robustness, Mechanism, and the Counterfactual use of Goal-directedness in Biology (Marco Buzzoni) -- 3. Difference (Alfredo Marcos) -- 4. Robustness and Autonomy (Alvaro Moreno) -- 5. Robustness as an Explanandum and Explanans in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology (Philippe Hunemann) -- 6. Issues in Developmental Robustness (Manfred D. Laubichler) -- 7. Physical Robustness and Biological Robustness: Dynamical Rearrangement of Symmetry and Minimum Stimulus (Giuseppe Vitiello) -- 8. News from the ‘Twilight Zone’: Protein Molecules Between the Crystal and the Fluid (Alessandro Giuliani) -- 9. Robustness and Emergent Dynamics in Noisy Biological Systems (Simonetta Filippi) -- 10. Robustness in Neurological Systems (Sandra D. Mitchell) -- 11. Robustness Notions and Physiological Adaptability: Philosophical and Biomedical Reflections on the Neurological Basis of Disorders (Raffaella Campaner) -- 12. Reconciling Variability with Robust Behavior at Single-neuron Level (Timothy O’Leary) -- 13. Functional Connectivity, Regulation, and SOM Interneurons Spontaneous Activity (Alison Barth) -- 14. Temporal Organization and Robustness in Neural Systems (Trey Boone) -- 15. Muscle Synergies: Concept, Principles, and Potential use in Neurorehabilitation Module (Emilio Bizzi) -- 16. Robustness of Musical Language: The Role of Motor Systems (Flavio Keller) -- 17. Conclusion - The Upcoming Role of Robustness in Biology. . |
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Biology and Subjectivity : Philosophical Contributions to Non-reductive Neuroscience / / edited by Miguel García-Valdecasas, José Ignacio Murillo, Nathaniel F. Barrett
| Biology and Subjectivity : Philosophical Contributions to Non-reductive Neuroscience / / edited by Miguel García-Valdecasas, José Ignacio Murillo, Nathaniel F. Barrett |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
| Disciplina | 100 |
| Collana | Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action |
| Soggetto topico |
Biology - Philosophy
Knowledge, Theory of Philosophy of Biology Epistemology |
| ISBN | 3-319-30502-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. Presentation / Introduction -- Chapter 2. Self-consciousness, personal identity and the challenge of neuroscience; D. Sturma -- Chapter 3. Mind vs Body and other false dilemmas of Post-Cartesian philosophy of mind; G. Klima -- Chapter 4. Body, time and subject; J. I. Murillo -- Chapter 5. Th. Buchheim, Remarks on the ontology of living beings and the causality of their behavior -- Chapter 6. Can you reduce life to its constitutive parts?; M. García-Valdecasas -- Chapter 7. The enactive theory of agency: Biological foundations, phenomenological constraints, and sociological implications; T. Froese -- Chapter 8. Mind and Value: A Pragmatist-Process Approach; N. Barrett -- Chapter 9. Ethics and normativity; J. Cottingham. |
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Biosemiotics and Evolution : The Natural Foundations of Meaning and Symbolism / / edited by Elena Pagni, Richard Theisen Simanke
| Biosemiotics and Evolution : The Natural Foundations of Meaning and Symbolism / / edited by Elena Pagni, Richard Theisen Simanke |
| Autore | Pagni Elena |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (277 pages) |
| Disciplina |
930.1
570.14 |
| Collana | Interdisciplinary Evolution Research |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology)
Biology - Philosophy Semiotics Social sciences Humanities Archaeology Evolutionary Biology Philosophy of Biology Humanities and Social Sciences Semiòtica Biologia |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Llibres electrònics |
| ISBN | 3-030-85265-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Part I: Life, meaning, and information -- Exploring the philosophical background and scientific foundations of naturalist approaches to meaning and symbolism -- Life sciences and the natural history of signs: can the origin of life processes coincide with the emergence of semiosis? -- A proposal for a biosemiotic approach to digitalization: literacy as modelling competence -- Threshold, meaning and life -- How information gets its meaning -- Part II: Semiosis and evolution -- Inclusive Fitness teleology and Darwinian explanatory pluralism: a theoretical sketch and an application to current controversies -- The origins and evolution of design: a stage-based model -- Biosemiotics and applied evolutionary epistemology: a comparison -- Extended synthesis and Jablonka and Lamb’s four-dimensional view of evolution -- Part III: Physics, medicine, and bioenergetics -- Physical intentionality: the phenomenological roots of biosemiotics -- Cancer and cell death: a biosemiotic perspective -- Biosemiotics and bioenergetics: two perspectives compared. |
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Biosignatures for Astrobiology / / edited by Barbara Cavalazzi, Frances Westall
| Biosignatures for Astrobiology / / edited by Barbara Cavalazzi, Frances Westall |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (362 pages) |
| Disciplina | 576.839 |
| Collana | Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics |
| Soggetto topico |
Exobiology
Biochemistry Paleontology Microbiology Mineralogy Biology—Philosophy Astrobiology Biochemistry, general Philosophy of Biology |
| ISBN | 3-319-96175-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Foreword -- Preface -- Chemical Biosignatures at the Origins -- Organic Matter in Interplanetary Dusts and Meteorites -- Biosignatures of Cellular Components and Metabolic Activity -- The Deep Subseafloor and Biosignatures -- A Systematic Way to Life Detection – Combining Field, Lab and Space Research in Low Earth Orbit -- Mineralogical Identification of Traces of Life -- Biosignatures in Deep Time -- The Search for Biosignatures in Martian Meteorite Allan Hills 84001 -- Role of Mineral Surfaces in Prebiotic Processes and Space-like Conditions -- Photochemistry and Photoreactions of Organic Molecules in Space -- Exoplanetary Biosignatures for Astrobiology -- The Enigma of Methane on Mars -- Detection of Biosignatures Using Raman Spectroscopy -- Searching for Signs of Life on Other Planets: Mars a Case Study -- The History and Philosophy of Biosignatures. |
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Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience / / edited by C.U.M. Smith, Harry Whitaker
| Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience / / edited by C.U.M. Smith, Harry Whitaker |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (374 p.) |
| Disciplina | 612.8233 |
| Collana | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
| Soggetto topico |
Biology - Philosophy
Neuropsychology Neurosciences Philosophy of Biology Neuroscience |
| ISBN | 94-017-8774-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction; C.U.M.Smith and H.A. Whitaker -- Chapter 1. Beginnings: ventricular neuropsychology; C.U.M.Smith -- Chapter 2. Return of the Repressed: Spinozan Ideas in the History of Mind and Brain Sciences; William Meehan -- Chapter 3. ‘Struck, As It Were, With Madness:’ The Phenomenology of Animal Spirits in the Neurology of Thomas Willis; Kathryn Tabb -- Chapter 4. Hooke’s mechanical mind; J.J. MacIntosh -- Chapter 5. Joseph Priestley: An instructive 18th century perspective on the mind-body problem; Alan Beretta -- Chapter 6. Reflections of western thinking on 19th C Ottoman thought: A critique of the 'hard-problem' by Spyridon Mavrogenis; George Anogianakis -- Chapter 7. George Henry Lewes (1817–1878): Embodied Cognition, Vitalism, and the Evolution of Symbolic Perception; Huw Price -- Chapter 8. Herbert Spencer: brain, mind and the ‘hard problem’; C.U.M.Smith -- Chapter 9. Problems of Consciousness in Nineteenth Century British and America Neurology; J Wayne Lazar -- Chapter 10. Emil du Bois-Reymond’s Reflections on Consciousness ; Gabriel Finkelstein -- Chapter 11. William James and the “Theatre” of Consciousness; Stephanie L. Hawkins -- Chapter 12. The enigmatic deciphering of the neuronal code of word meaning; Andrew C. Papanicolaou -- Chapter 13. Alfred North Whitehead and the history of consciousness; Laura Hyatt Edwards -- Chapter 14. The ‘hard problem’ and the Cartesian strand in British neurophysiology: Huxley, Foster, Sherrington, Eccles; C.U.M.Smith -- Chapter 15. Is there a link between quantum mechanics and consciousness?; Barry K Ward -- Chapter 16. Consciousness and neuronal microtubules: the Penrose-Hameroff quantum model in retrospect; Eugenio Frixione -- Chapter 17. Zombie Dawn: Slavery and the Self in the Twenty-first Century; David Hawkes -- Chapter 18. Mind and Brain: Toward an Understanding of Dualism; Kristopher Phillips, Alan Beretta and Harry Whitaker. |
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