Functional entailment and immanent causation in relational biology
Axiomathes 18 (3):289-302 (2008)
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I explicate the crucial role played by efficient cause in Robert Rosen’s characterization of life, by elaborating on the topic of Aristotelian causality, and exploring the many alternate descriptions of causal and inferential entailments. In particular, I discuss the concepts of functional entailment and immanent causation, and examine how they fit into Robert Rosen’s relational-biology universe of living, anticipatory, and complex systems.
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| Keywords | Anticipatory systems Closure to efficient causation Functional entailment Immanent causation Robert Rosen |
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10516-008-9047-y |
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