Project News

September 14
Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms

Leonardo Bich, member of two Agency, Directionality and Function projects, co-wrote “Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms” published in the June volume of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.

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September 12
Enactivism and the Hegelian Stance on Intrinsic Purposiveness

Andrea Gambarotto and Matteo Mossio, two members of the “An organizational account of ecological functions” project, wrote “Enactivism and the Hegelian Stance on Intrinsic Purposiveness” published in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences in July 2022.

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September 7
Seminar: On the possibility of generalized selected effects ecological functions

The History, Philosophy and Biology Teaching Lab (LEFHBio), associated with the Institute of Biology/ Federal University of Bahia and the National Institute of Science and Technology in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution (INCT IN-TREE), Brazil, will continue its seminar cycle on 13 September 2022 with the talk by Dr. Antoine Dussault (Collège Lionel-Groulx, Centre Interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technology/CIRST and Centre de recherche en éthique/CRÉ, Canadá) addressing the following topic: “On the possibility of generalized selected effects ecological functions”.

Date and time: 13 September 2022, 10:00AM BRT (Bahia, Brazil time zone)

Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85200246679?pwd=cU9HQ3h0bFNmRXY2aFQxRFhJYjZuQT09

More details about the event, including an abstract and a biography of the speaker, are available here.

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September 6
Eukaryogenesis and oxygen in Earth history

Members of the "Chance versus Purpose in the Evolution of Biospheres" project wrote “Eukaryogenesis and oxygen in Earth history” published in April 2022 in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

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September 2
Evolution: Various routes to sex determination

“Evolution: Various routes to sex determination,” by Manus Patten, one of the PIs of the Paradox of the Organism project, was published in Current Biology in May 2022.

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