La idea de autonomía en biología

Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 40:21-37 (2007)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

The aim of this article is to examine how the notion of biological autonomy may be linked to other notions of autonomy usual in philosophical discussions. Starting in the 70s, the Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela developed a theory of life as autopoiesis which gives rise to a new conception of autonomy: biological autonomy. The development of this concept implies the recovery of the notion of the organism in a scientific context in which biology and philosophy of biology are focused on the study of the gene by Molecular Biology and evolution by natural selection, by the so called Modern Synthesis. Here we try to show some implications of the concept of life as autonomy for current biology and how this concept can be related to other more usual ones in philosophy

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,593

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Informed Consent and Relational Conceptions of Autonomy.N. Stoljar - 2011 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 36 (4):375-384.
Autonomy, consent and the law.Sheila McLean - 2010 - New York, N.Y.: Routledge-Cavendish.
Biological Autonomy: A Philosophical and Theoretical Enquiry.Alvaro Moreno & Matteo Mossio - 2015 - Dordrecht: Springer. Edited by Matteo Mossio.

Analytics

Added to PP
2013-11-24

Downloads
23 (#584,438)

6 months
3 (#445,838)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Arantza Etxeberria
University of the Basque Country

References found in this work

The Principles of Life.Tibor Ganti - 2003 - Oxford University Press UK.
Representational content in humans and machines.Mark H. Bickhard - 1993 - Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 5:285-33.
Autonomy, function, and representation.Mark H. Bickhard - 2000 - Communication and Cognition-Artificial Intelligence 17 (3-4):111-131.
II. Der kategorische Imperativ gegenüber einer Mehrheit von Sittengesetzen. Boden - 1912 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 25 (1):7-52.

View all 7 references / Add more references