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Quantum Biology: A Live Option
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Pete A.Y. Gunter
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Table of Contents vii
- Preface ix
- Acknowledgments I xi
- List of Contributors xiii
- Introduction: The Need for a New Biophilosophy 1
- Teleology and the Life Sciences: Between Limit Concept and Ontological Necessity 37
- The Experience of Environmental Phosphate Fluctuations by Cyanobacteria: an Essay on the Teleological Feature of Physiological Adaptation 73
- Beyond Systems Theoretical Explanations of an Organism’s Becoming: A Process Philosophical Approach 99
- Process and Action: Whitehead’s Ontological Units and Perceptuomotor Control Units 133
- Life in the Interstices: Systems Biology and Process Thought 157
- Quantum Biology: A Live Option 171
- The Effect of Mind upon Brain 183
- A Fourth Variable in Evolution 215
- Evolution without Tears: A Third Way beyond Neo-Darwinism and Intelligent Design 255
- Covariance and Evolution 275
- Index 307
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Table of Contents vii
- Preface ix
- Acknowledgments I xi
- List of Contributors xiii
- Introduction: The Need for a New Biophilosophy 1
- Teleology and the Life Sciences: Between Limit Concept and Ontological Necessity 37
- The Experience of Environmental Phosphate Fluctuations by Cyanobacteria: an Essay on the Teleological Feature of Physiological Adaptation 73
- Beyond Systems Theoretical Explanations of an Organism’s Becoming: A Process Philosophical Approach 99
- Process and Action: Whitehead’s Ontological Units and Perceptuomotor Control Units 133
- Life in the Interstices: Systems Biology and Process Thought 157
- Quantum Biology: A Live Option 171
- The Effect of Mind upon Brain 183
- A Fourth Variable in Evolution 215
- Evolution without Tears: A Third Way beyond Neo-Darwinism and Intelligent Design 255
- Covariance and Evolution 275
- Index 307