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Is a Cognitive Revolution in Theoretical Biology Underway?
The foundations of biology have been a topic of debate for the past few decades. The traditional perspective of the Modern Synthesis, which portrays...
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A Prelude: From Slovak Mountains to Cognitive Biology
The main aim of this article is to provide a short overview of the research that gradually culminated in the concept of cognitive biology. To a...
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Structuralism and Form in Literature and Biology Critiquing Genetic Manipulation
The book considers biology in parallel with philosophical structuralism in order to argue that notions of form in the organism are analogous to...
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Scaffolds and scaffolding: an explanatory strategy in evolutionary biology
In recent years, the explanatory term “scaffold” has been gaining prominence in evolutionary biology. This notion has a long history in other areas,...
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Scientists’ Views on the Ethics, Promises and Practices of Synthetic Biology: A Qualitative Study of Australian Scientific Practice
Synthetic biology is a broad term covering multiple scientific methodologies, technologies, and practices. Pairing biology with engineering, synbio...
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Jean Gayon, History and Philosophy of Biology: A New Synthesis
In this contribution, I show that Jean Gayon’s work operates an original synthesis between the history of scienceHistory of science, the philosophy...
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Keywords in Economics and Evolutionary Biology: Twenty Five Concepts
This section exposes twenty-five key concepts in evolutionary biology and in economics. Each concept is explicated first in evolutionary biology,...
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The applicability of mathematics in computational systems biology and its experimental relations
In 1966 Richard Levins argued that applications of mathematics to population biology faced various constraints which forced mathematical modelers to...
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Structuralism, Vitalism, and Bioengineering
Genetic manipulation (bioengineering) is implicit to the current paradigm of modern biology. Concerns raised about the technology have focused...
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Exploring biological possibility through synthetic biology
This paper analyzes the notion of possibility in biology and demonstrates how synthetic biology can provide understanding on the modal dimension of...
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Three kinds of the Lotka–Volterra model transfer from biology to economics
Philosophers of science regard the Lotka–Volterra model as an exemplar of model transfer across disciplines. This article traces three cases of the...
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Photonic Emulation and Quantum Biology
Environment-assisted quantum transportEnvironment-assisted quantum transport is a proposed mechanism in which energy transfer in certain...
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Cycles and circulation: a theme in the history of biology and medicine
We invite systematic consideration of the metaphors of cycles and circulation as a long-term theme in the history of the life and environmental...
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An Ecological Context
Literary formalism, incorporating structuralist ideas developed by the Prague Linguistics Circle, proposes that literature is not the effect of an...
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Adaptationism and the Author
Adaptationism endorses the gene as the primary locus of change (leading to new structures in evolution). This functionalist position is consistent...
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The Relational Turn
Formalism is based on the premise that the form of a literary text is constitutive of meaning (or content). Literature is counter-posed to standard...
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Experimentation in the Life Sciences
This chapter provides a brief overview of the increasing importance of experimentation in the life sciences from the seventeenth century to the...
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Behavioural and Cultural Epigenetics: Social Biologisms Refuted by Developments in Biology
Developments in evolutionary studies, focused on the discovery of epigenetic inheritance and the social-environmental factors influencing it, have...
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Technology and Dehumanization of Medicine
The paper “Technology and de-humanization of medicine” published in 2017 relies on the insight about the nature of modern technology since its...
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Setting the Stage for Evolutionary Theory
In develo** his theory of evolution, Charles Darwin turned to earlier French ideas, including transformism and Cuvier’s adapted organism....