Mechanism, autonomy and biological explanation
dc.contributor.author | Bich, Leonardo | |
dc.contributor.author | Bechtel, William | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-15T09:25:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-12-15T09:25:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-12 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Biology & Philosophy 36(6) : (2021) // Article ID 53 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 0169-3867 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1572-8404 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/54484 | |
dc.description.abstract | [EN]The new mechanists and the autonomy approach both aim to account for how biological phenomena are explained. One identifies appeals to how components of a mechanism are organized so that their activities produce a phenomenon. The other directs attention towards the whole organism and focuses on how it achieves self-maintenance. This paper discusses challenges each confronts and how each could benefit from collaboration with the other: the new mechanistic framework can gain by taking into account what happens outside individual mechanisms, while the autonomy approach can ground itself in biological research into how the actual components constituting an autonomous system interact and contribute in different ways to realize and maintain the system. To press the case that these two traditions should be constructively integrated we describe how three recent developments in the autonomy tradition together provide a bridge between the two traditions: (1) a framework of work and constraints, (2) a conception of function grounded in the organization of an autonomous system, and (3) a focus on control. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. The authors acknowledge funding from the Basque Government (Project: IT1228-19 for LB), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades, Spain (research project PID2019-104576 GB-I00 for LB and WB, and `Ramon y Cajal' Programme RYC-2016-19798 for LB). | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Springer | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICIU/PID2019-104576 GB-I00 | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/RYC-2016-19798 | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ | * |
dc.subject | biological explanation | es_ES |
dc.subject | organization | es_ES |
dc.subject | function | es_ES |
dc.subject | constraint | es_ES |
dc.subject | control | es_ES |
dc.title | Mechanism, autonomy and biological explanation | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | Atribución 3.0 España | * |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10539-021-09829-8 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10539-021-09829-8 | |
dc.departamentoes | Filosofía | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Filosofia | es_ES |
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