Review of Biological AutonomyAlvaro Moreno and Matteo Mossio, Biological Autonomy. Dordrecht: Springer (2015), 221 pp., $129.00.

2016 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 446-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Winning ◽  
William Bechtel
Keyword(s):  
Biological Autonomy

Autopoiesis and Natural Drift: Genetic Information, Reproduction, and Evolution Revisited

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arantza Etxeberria
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Information ◽  
Biological Theory ◽  
Definition Of Life ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Biological Autonomy ◽  
Central Notion ◽  
Natural Drift ◽  
Definition Of

The contribution of the theory of autopoiesis to the definition of life and biological theory affirms biological autonomy as a central notion of scientific and philosophical inquiry, and opposes other biological approaches, based on the notion of genetic information, that consider reproduction and evolution to be the central aspects of life and living phenomenology. This article reviews the autopoietic criticisms of genetic information, reproduction, and evolution in the light of a biology that can solve the problem of living organization.

The evolution of multicellularity in animals as a shift in biological autonomy

2005 ◽  
Vol 123 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
B ROSSLENBROICH
Keyword(s):  
Biological Autonomy

Finding Health Between Personal and Disease Processes

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark D. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Patient Autonomy ◽  
Disease Model ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Personal Meaning ◽  
Personal Goals ◽  
Biological Autonomy ◽  
Modern Natural ◽  
Modern Natural Science ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
Blind Spots

Patient autonomy on a personal level is ultimately rooted in biological autonomy on a subpersonal level. Patient decisional autonomy concerns the conscious choices patients make concerning treatments and lifestyle, whereas biological autonomy concerns the ability of patients to shape their environment. To understand the roots of health in this biological autonomy, we must bridge the chasm characteristic of modern natural science between personal meaning and impersonal mechanism. We will find that “health” and “action” represent blind spots for medical and biological theory, respectively. Modern medicine strongly distinguishes the impersonal disease from the patient who has the disease. Four disciplines at the margin of biomedicine are reviewed that challenge this separation: psychosomatics, placebo, alternative medicine, and geriatrics. Attention to personal goals during diagnosis and treatment is one way to bridge the gap between impersonal disease and the patient as person. But, ultimately, the impersonal biomedical disease model needs to be challenged.

Alvaro Moreno and Matteo Mossio: Biological autonomy: a philosophical and theoretical enquiry

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 591-601
Author(s):  
Bernd Rosslenbroich
Keyword(s):  
Biological Autonomy

scholarly journals Biological autonomy and control of function in circadian cycle

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-455
Author(s):  
박철욱
Keyword(s):  
Circadian Cycle ◽  
Biological Autonomy ◽  
And Control

Seeking the Roots of Health and Action in Biological Autonomy

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark D. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Niche Construction ◽  
Chemical Processes ◽  
Internal Environment ◽  
Environmental Niche ◽  
Vital Force ◽  
Biological Autonomy ◽  
Biological Trait ◽  
Claude Bernard ◽  
Biological Constraint ◽  
Biological Entities

The roots of biological autonomy and health are the same. Goals make biology distinct as a science, for without goals, we cannot understand why a biological trait exists. Organisms are autonomous biological entities because they define what is inside and what is outside themselves. This boundary between inner and outer gives the organism a self-referential purpose. Claude Bernard made experimental physiology possible with his concept of the internal environment, but he was unable to explain how the organism established the boundary between itself and its environment. Hence, homeostasis portrays the organism as reactive not active. Autopoiesis is an alternative defining characteristic of living beings. It generates biological autonomy through additional biological constraint on chemical processes, not through a special vital force. Healthy organisms can construct their own environmental niche. For humans, this niche is social and is constructed with a social physiology. Both exercise and education increase health by increasing capacity for niche construction.

scholarly journals Autopoiesis, biological autonomy and the process view of life

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Sophie Meincke
Keyword(s):  
Biological Autonomy ◽  
Process View

Biological autonomy: the self-creation of constraints

1993 ◽  
Vol 56 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 177-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Shimizu
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Biological Autonomy
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