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Foundations for Interdisciplinarity in the Life Sciences: Concise Monographs
Although biologists often use descriptive language that imputes purposiveness to living systems, many have argued that these conceptions are at best heuristic, and at worst egregious errors. Yet there is a growing recognition that biological phenomena suggesting agency, directionality, and goal-directedness demand new or updated conceptual frameworks that can translate into rigorous theoretical models and discriminating empirical tests.
This series of Springer Briefs will introduce and extend the scholarship emerging from the novel, interdisciplinary, large-scale Agency, Directionality and Function program that combines philosophers, theoreticians, and experimentalists to address these demands.
The cohort program involves more than one hundred researchers engaging in collaborative activities organized around key concepts (e.g., biological function, agency, directionality), modeling practices, and distinctive phenomena at diverse temporal and spatial scales (e.g., behavior, development, macroevolution).
The book series will solidify the foundations for future interdisciplinary inquiry in the life sciences and catalyze the emergence of new lines of research based on an increased array of conceptual possibilities, distinctive formal modeling strategies, and next-generation experimental platforms. In bringing these contributions together, the series has the potential to set an agenda for the next generation of research, both in biology and in philosophy of science.
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