Functional entailment and immanent causation in relational biology

A. H. Louie

Functional entailment and immanent causation in relational biology

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Axiomathes 18 (3):289-302 (2008)

Abstract	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.
Keywords	Anticipatory systems Closure to efficient causation Functional entailment Immanent causation Robert Rosen
Categories	Causation in Biology in Philosophy of Biology (categorize this paper)
DOI	10.1007/s10516-008-9047-y
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Essays on Life Itself.Robert Rosen - 2000

Topology and Life Redux: Robert Rosen's Relational Diagrams of Living Systems. [REVIEW]A. H. Louie & Stephen W. Kercel - 2007 - Axiomathes 17 (2):109-136.

(M,R)-Systems and Their Realizations.A. H. Louie - 2005 - Axiomathes 16 (1-2):35-64.

Autobiographical Reminiscences of Robert Rosen.Robert Rosen - 2006 - Axiomathes 16 (1-2):1-23.

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Relational Biology of Symbiosis.A. H. Louie - 2010 - Axiomathes 20 (4):495-509.

Explications of Functional Entailment in Relational Pathophysiology.A. H. Louie - 2013 - Axiomathes 23 (1):81-107.

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