National audienceThis chapter offers an overview of the theoretical and philosophical tradition that, during the last two centuries, has emphasised the central role of circularities in biological phenomena. In this tradition, organisms realise a circular causal regime insofar as their existence depends on the effects of their own activity: they determine themselves. In turn, self-determination is the grounding of several biological properties and dimensions, as individuation, teleology, normativity and functionality. We show how this general idea has been theorised sometimes through concepts, sometimes through models, and sometimes through both. We analyse the main differences between the various contributions, by emphasising their strength...
International audienceThis paper argues that biological organisation can be legitimately conceived o...
International audienceThis text presents a model for biological time and more general ideas on the a...
International audienceBiocosmology is based on the principle that the laws of the biological microco...
National audienceThis chapter offers an overview of the theoretical and philosophical tradition that...
Science and political activism : the transformations of a circular deal The example of the French ec...
This short text summarizes the work in biology proposed in our book,Perspectives on Organisms, where...
International audienceOrganisms, whether uni or multi-cellular, are agents that make their own norms...
This paper attempts, inevitably briefly, a re-categorization and partial resolution of some foundati...
International audienceDo biologists need the concept of function? A philosophical perspective. Funct...
Le thème de l’individuation et de la persistance des entités vivantes constitue l’une des problémati...
International audienceAbstract The new mechanists and the autonomy approach both aim to account for ...
The definition of life has excited little interest among molecular biologists during the past half-...
La biologie de synthèse (BS) est une discipline scientifique qui se propose d'être à la biologie ce ...
Deacon develops a minimal model of a nonparasitic virus to explore how nucleotide sequences came to ...
Abstract Biosemiotics is the idea that life is based on semiosis, i.e., on signs and codes. This ide...
International audienceThis paper argues that biological organisation can be legitimately conceived o...
International audienceThis text presents a model for biological time and more general ideas on the a...
International audienceBiocosmology is based on the principle that the laws of the biological microco...
National audienceThis chapter offers an overview of the theoretical and philosophical tradition that...
Science and political activism : the transformations of a circular deal The example of the French ec...
This short text summarizes the work in biology proposed in our book,Perspectives on Organisms, where...
International audienceOrganisms, whether uni or multi-cellular, are agents that make their own norms...
This paper attempts, inevitably briefly, a re-categorization and partial resolution of some foundati...
International audienceDo biologists need the concept of function? A philosophical perspective. Funct...
Le thème de l’individuation et de la persistance des entités vivantes constitue l’une des problémati...
International audienceAbstract The new mechanists and the autonomy approach both aim to account for ...
The definition of life has excited little interest among molecular biologists during the past half-...
La biologie de synthèse (BS) est une discipline scientifique qui se propose d'être à la biologie ce ...
Deacon develops a minimal model of a nonparasitic virus to explore how nucleotide sequences came to ...
Abstract Biosemiotics is the idea that life is based on semiosis, i.e., on signs and codes. This ide...
International audienceThis paper argues that biological organisation can be legitimately conceived o...
International audienceThis text presents a model for biological time and more general ideas on the a...
International audienceBiocosmology is based on the principle that the laws of the biological microco...