Complexity, agency and emergency of meaning in living systems. A teleological approach

Authors

  • Mirko Di Bernardo Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Rome Tor Vergata

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/2284-0184/3760

Keywords:

Filosofia della biologia, vita, cognizione, intenzionalità, precondizioni dell'etica

Abstract

Keeping as a reference the horizon of the agency theory of S.A. Kauffman and the neurobiology of meaning of W.J. Freeman, the article, by recourse to a specific epistemological approach linked to the biological complexity theory, examines the possibility of interpreting life and cognition as emergent phenomena in the same way as the hierarchy of self-organization in constant coevolution.

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Author Biography

Mirko Di Bernardo, Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Rome Tor Vergata

 

 

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Published

2016-01-31

Issue

Vol. 3 (2016): RTH - Education & Philosophy: Revolutions and Architectures for Innovation

Section

Evolving Philosophy

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