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Russo, Nicola. La biologia filosofica di Hans Jonas. Guida, 2004.

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Cicchese, Gennaro. Scienze informatiche e biologiche: Epistemologia e ontologia. Città nuova, 2011.

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Stamos, David N. Species Problem: Biological Species, Ontology, and the Metaphysics of Biology. Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2003.

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Stamos, David N. The Species Problem, Biological Species, Ontology, and the Metaphysics of Biology. Lexington Books, 2004.

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The Species Problem, Biological Species, Ontology, and the Metaphysics of Biology. Lexington Books, 2003.

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DiFrisco, James. Biological Processes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779636.003.0004.

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This chapter investigates the identity and persistence conditions for processes as a task of biological process ontology. It argues that the problem of intrinsic variation in evolution, development, and metabolism motivates viewing biological individuals as processes rather than as substances. Different criteria of identity for processes are then evaluated, including causal and spatio-temporal relations. The chapter ultimately settles on the view that processes are individuated by causal cohesion and are identical if they share the same cohesive properties and spatio-temporal region. The persi

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Meincke, Anne Sophie. Persons as Biological Processes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779636.003.0018.

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Human persons exist longer than a single moment in time; they persist through time. However, so far it has not been possible to make this natural and widespread assumption metaphysically comprehensible. The philosophical debate on personal identity is rather stuck in a dilemma: reductionist theories explain personal identity away, while non-reductionist theories fail to give any informative account at all. This chapter argues that this dilemma emerges from an underlying commitment, shared by both sides in the debate, to an ontology that gives priority to static unchanging things. The claim def

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Arnellos, Argyris. From Organizations of Processes to Organisms and Other Biological Individuals. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779636.003.0010.

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The emphasis on the collaborative dimension of life overlooks the importance of biological individuals (conceived of as integrated, self-maintaining organizations) in the build-up of more complex collaborative networks in the course of evolution. This chapter proposes a process-based organizational ontology for biology, according to which the essential features of unicellular organismicality are captured by a self-maintaining organization of processes integrated by means of a special type of collaboration (realized through regulatory processes entailing an indispensable interdependence) betwee

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Bouchard, Frédéric. Symbiosis, Transient Biological Individuality, and Evolutionary Processes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779636.003.0009.

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Whereas individual organisms have acted as the paradigm case to make us think about biological individuality, multi-organism assemblages such as colonies and communities force us to reconsider how biological individuality can emerge. Symbiosis research has given philosophers of biology tools for rethinking the nature of biological individuality. This chapter discusses how the adaptations linked to symbiotic communities highlight a new research dilemma: should we think of a biological ontology focused on individuals and their traits (even if this means positing non-orthodox individuals with non

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Bock, Juergen. Ontology Alignment using Biologically-inspired Optimisation Algorithms. KIT Scientific Publishing, 2013.

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Mills, Simon. Gilbert Simondon. Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., 2016. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881813123.

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Gilbert Simondon: Information, Technology and Media is a comprehensive introduction to the work of the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon. In particular it examines Simondon's original informational ontology, as developed from a synthesis of Cybernetics, thermodynamics and French epistemology, The book goes on to delineate the role this ontology plays in developing an original account of individuation in the physical, biological and psycho-social regimes. This is done, in part, through reading Simondon with and against other figures in these fields such as Merleau-Ponty and Stuart Kauffman. A

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Minati, Gianfranco, Eliano Pessa, and Mario Abram. Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development. Springer, 2010.

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Minati, Gianfranco, Eliano Pessa, and Mario Abram. Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development. Springer London, Limited, 2006.

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Croasmun, Matthew. The Emergence of Persons Great and Small. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190277987.003.0004.

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This chapter turns specifically to the question of personhood, offering an emergent ontology of human persons at both the biological and psychological levels. These “individuals” prove to be internally composite and externally open to further combination. The discussion then moves to consider these “external” combinations. In somatic terms, this involves discussion of biology’s history of determining the biological “individual,” and the discussion of “superorganisms” that blur the distinction between parts and wholes. Various theories of “group mind” are evaluated in order to consider the rele

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Ferguson, Stephen C. Exploring the Matter of Race. Edited by Naomi Zack. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190236953.013.56.

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The biological fact of race and the social myth of racial inequality can be examined from a Marxist philosophical perspective. A materialist philosophical perspective on the social ontology of race, includes due consideration given to the material context of social relations of production and the State as an instrument of the ruling class. A Marxist analysis renders capitalism as context and determinate ground for the explanation of racism on a materialist basis. The result is that race and/or racism should not be posited theoretically as having an independent life and force of its own.

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Bonnie Fagan, Melinda. Individuality, Organisms, and Cell Differentiation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190636814.003.0006.

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This chapter builds on earlier arguments concerning the individuality of stem cells. The author has argued in previous work that stem cells are not biological individuals in the same way as specialized cells of multicellular organisms (e.g., neurons, red blood cells, muscle cells) but that some stem cells (cultured pluripotent stem cells) can be considered biological individuals by analogy with multicellular organisms. More precisely, the author claims that cultured pluripotent stem cells can be considered model organisms for studying early mammalian development. An important objection to this

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Clarke, Ellen. The Units of Life. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191948008.001.0001.

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Abstract This book addresses a concept—that of the organism, or biological individual—which is used across biology to pick out living things, but which is contested. I argue that we can arbitrate arguments about the concept by delving into philosophical questions about what concepts are for, in order to formulate some plausible success criteria against which the performance of rival concepts can be evaluated. I defend a particular, evolutionary way of understanding the concept as outperforming its rivals in terms of the kind and range of work it supports. More generally, I argue that kind conc

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Nicholson, Daniel J. Reconceptualizing the Organism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779636.003.0007.

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This chapter draws on insights from non-equilibrium thermodynamics to demonstrate the ontological inadequacy of the machine conception of the organism. The thermodynamic character of living systems underlies the importance of metabolism and calls for the adoption of a processual view, exemplified by the Heraclitean metaphor of the stream of life. This alternative conception is explored in its various historical formulations, and the extent to which it captures the nature of living systems is examined. Next, the chapter considers the metaphysical implications of reconceptualizing the organism f

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Nicholson, Daniel J., and John Dupré, eds. Everything Flows. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779636.001.0001.

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This collection of essays explores the metaphysical thesis that the living world is not ontologically made up of substantial particles or things, as has often been assumed, but is rather constituted by processes. The biological domain is organized as an interdependent hierarchy of processes, which are stabilized and actively maintained at different timescales. Even entities that intuitively appear to be paradigms of things, such as organisms, are actually better understood as processes. Unlike previous attempts to articulate processual views of biology, which have tended to use Alfred North Wh

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