03677cam a22005658i 4500 9781003413318 FlBoTFG 20251030122245.0 m o d cr ||||||||||| 240419s2024 enk ob 001 0 eng OCoLC-P eng rda OCoLC-P 9781003413318 (ebook) 1003413315 9781040111482 (electronic bk. : PDF) 1040111483 (electronic bk. : PDF) 9781040111499 (electronic bk. : EPUB) 1040111491 (electronic bk. : EPUB) 9781032537269 (hardback) 9781032537276 (paperback) 10.4324/9781003413318 doi (OCoLC)1430987648 (OCoLC-P)1430987648 QH331 PHI 034000 bisacsh JHB bicssc The riddle of organismal agency : new historical and philosophical reflections / Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Jan Baedke, Guido I. Prieto and Gregory Radick. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024. 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier History and philosophy of biology "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 of organisms in the history of biology and philosophy. This book will be of interest to philosophers of biology; historians of science; biologists interested in analysing the active roles of organisms in development, ecological interactions, and evolution; philosophers and practitioners of the cognitive sciences; and philosophers and historians of philosophy working on purposiveness and teleology"-- Provided by publisher. OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. Biology Philosophy. 69633 Consciousness in animals. 94389 Speciesism. 94390 Animal behavior. 83743 Animal intelligence. 94391 Fábregas-Tejeda, Alejandro, editor. 94392 Baedke, Jan, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjwJWGQ784jv7HvwvjmPQq 94393 Prieto, Guido I., editor. 94394 Radick, Gregory, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjFkkDctH3XhGFvtpK4pfq 94395 Taylor & Francis https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003413318 OCLC metadata license agreement http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf E-Books 67787 67787