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A Phenomenological Revision of E. E. Harris's Dialectical HolismTowards a Teleonomic Philosophy of Biology

A Phenomenological Revision of E. E. Harris's Dialectical Holism: Towards a Teleonomic Philosophy... [The goal of this chapter is to present the dialectical holist stance on key topics in philosophy of biology as a theoretical bridge to Harris’s metaphysics of mind. In Sect. 6.2, I set out Harris’s necessary and sufficient conditions for life and in subsequent sections I compare these contentions with contemporary accounts. The central issues to be discussed in this chapter will be whether the notion of the unifying principle (ϕ) can be applied to the simplest unit of life, and if so, to establish what if any further philosophical insight this provides into the natures of life, evolution, and mind. In Sect. 6.3, I outline Harris’s argument that the explicative process () subsumes and broadens Neo-Darwinism. Here I address whether formal governance in collective living systems provides teleological direction to biological evolution. In the final section, I show that for both Harris and AE, positing formal governance across a range of biological systems implies the Gaia theory.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Phenomenological Revision of E. E. Harris's Dialectical HolismTowards a Teleonomic Philosophy of Biology

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[The goal of this chapter is to present the dialectical holist stance on key topics in philosophy of biology as a theoretical bridge to Harris’s metaphysics of mind. In Sect. 6.2, I set out Harris’s necessary and sufficient conditions for life and in subsequent sections I compare these contentions with contemporary accounts. The central issues to be discussed in this chapter will be whether the notion of the unifying principle (ϕ) can be applied to the simplest unit of life, and if so, to establish what if any further philosophical insight this provides into the natures of life, evolution, and mind. In Sect. 6.3, I outline Harris’s argument that the explicative process () subsumes and broadens Neo-Darwinism. Here I address whether formal governance in collective living systems provides teleological direction to biological evolution. In the final section, I show that for both Harris and AE, positing formal governance across a range of biological systems implies the Gaia theory.]

Published: Oct 13, 2021

Keywords: Dialectical evolution; Autopoiesis; Symbiogenesis; Gaia

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