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100 1 _aBich, Leonardo,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aBiological organization /
_cLeonardo Bich.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2024.
300 _a1 online resource (71 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aCambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of biology,
_x2515-1126
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Dec 2024).
506 0 _aOpen Access.
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _aLiving systems are complex systems made of components that tend to degrade, but nonetheless they maintain themselves far from equilibrium. This requires living systems to extract energy and materials from the environment and use them to build and repair their parts by regulating their activities based on their internal and external conditions in ways that allow them to keep living. The philosophical and theoretical approach discussed in this Element aims to explain these features of biological systems by appealing to their organization. It addresses classical and more recent issues in philosophy of biology, fromorigins and definitions of life to biological teleology and functions, from an original perspective mainly focused on the living system, its physiology and behavior, rather than evolution. It discusses and revises the conceptual foundations of this approach and presents an updated version of it. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
650 0 _aBiological systems.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781009539401
830 0 _aCambridge elements.
_pElements in the philosophy of biology,
_x2515-1126.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781009393959
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