Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

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