Organisational teleology 2.0: Grounding biological purposiveness in regulatory control.
This paper critically revises the organisational account of teleology, which argues that living systems are first and foremost oriented towards a goal: maintaining their own conditions of existence. It points out some limitations of this account, mainly in the capability to account for the richness...
| Publicado en: | Ratio Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 327 - 341 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2024
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