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    The Immune Self: Theory or Metaphor?Alfred I. Tauber - 1994 - Cambridge University Press.
    This is one of the first books in a new series that will publish the very best work in the philosophy of biology. The series will be non-sectarian in character, will extend across the broadest range of topics, and will be genuinely interdisciplinary. The Immune Self is a critical study of immunology from its origins at the end of the nineteenth century to its contemporary formulation. The book offers the first extended philosophical critique of immunology, in which the function of (...)
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  2. Philosophy of immunology.Bartlomiej Swiatczak & Alfred I. Tauber - 2020 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2020.
    Philosophy of immunology is a subfield of philosophy of biology dealing with ontological and epistemological issues related to the studies of the immune system. While speculative investigations and abstract analyses have always been part of immune theorizing, until recently philosophers have largely ignored immunology. Yet the implications for understanding the philosophical basis of organismal functions framed by immunity offer new perspectives on fundamental questions of biology and medicine. Developed in the context of history of medicine, theoretical biology, and medical anthropology, (...)
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  3. Patient Autonomy and the Ethics of Responsibility.Alfred I. Tauber - 2005 - MIT Press.
    The principle of patient autonomy dominates the contemporary debate over medical ethics. In this examination of the doctor-patient relationship, physician and philosopher Alfred Tauber argues that the idea of patient autonomy -- which was inspired by other rights-based movements of the 1960s -- was an extrapolation from political and social philosophy that fails to ground medicine's moral philosophy. He proposes instead a reconfiguration of personal autonomy and a renewed commitment to an ethics of care. In this formulation, physician beneficence and (...)
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    Immunity: The Evolution of an Idea.Alfred I. Tauber - 2017 - New York, US: Oup Usa.
    In Immunity, Alfred Tauber sets forth a new theory of immunology that rejects the common principle of self and non-self, and the immune system's role as a protector of the self from external threats. Rather than serving to defend an independent entity, he argues, immunity participates in a large, complex eco-system of porous and flexible boundaries. Tauber's new approach to immunology necessitates a new biology in which symbiosis is the rule, not the exception.
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    Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher.Alfred I. Tauber - 2010 - Princeton University Press.
    Freud began university intending to study both medicine and philosophy. But he was ambivalent about philosophy, regarding it as metaphysical, too limited to the conscious mind, and ignorant of empirical knowledge. Yet his private correspondence and his writings on culture and history reveal that he never forsook his original philosophical ambitions. Indeed, while Freud remained firmly committed to positivist ideals, his thought was permeated with other aspects of German philosophy. Placed in dialogue with his intellectual contemporaries, Freud appears as a (...)
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    Rethinking individuality: the dialectics of the holobiont.Scott F. Gilbert & Alfred I. Tauber - 2016 - Biology and Philosophy 31 (6):839-853.
    Given immunity’s general role in the organism’s economy—both in terms of its internal environment as well as mediating its external relations—immune theory has expanded its traditional formulation of preserving individual autonomy to one that includes accounting for nutritional processes and symbiotic relationships that require immune tolerance. When such a full ecological alignment is adopted, the immune system becomes the mediator of both defensive and assimilative environmental intercourse, where a balance of immune rejection and tolerance governs the complex interactions of the (...)
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    Confessions of a Medicine Man: An Essay in Popular Philosophy.Alfred I. Tauber - 2000 - Bradford.
    This book probes the ethical structure of contemporary medicine in an argument accessible to lay readers, healthcare professionals, and ethicists alike.
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    (1 other version)Outside the Subject.Alfred I. Tauber - 1995 - Human Studies 18 (4):439-446.
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    Essay Review: The Historiography of Immunology is Still in Its Infancy.Alfred I. Tauber, Leon Chernyak, Anne-Marie Moulin, Herman Friedman & Emily Martin - 1999 - Journal of the History of Biology 32 (1):205-215.
  10. Organism and the Origins of Self.Alfred I. Tauber & Elias L. Khalil - 1994 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 16 (2):355.
    Alfred I. Tauber (ed.), Organism and the Origins of Self. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. xix + 384 pp., US$ 110.00 (US$ 25.00 paperback). This is a fascinating book based on a 1990 symposium at Boston University. It promises to change the way one conceives of the organism. The authors start from different specializations but provide a most tantalizing feast of ideas. Richard Lewontin commences the book with a strange foreword. Lewontin submits that the concern with the "self and (...)
     
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    Immunity in Context.Alfred I. Tauber - 2016 - Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 31 (2):207-224.
    According to immunology’s prevailing paradigm, immunity is based on self/nonself discrimination and thus requires a construction of identity. Two orientations vie for dominance: The original conception, conceived in the context of infectious diseases, regards the organism as insular and autonomous, an entity that requires defense of its borders. An alternate view places the organism firmly in its environment in which both benign and onerous encounters occur. On this latter relational account, active tolerance allows for cooperative relationships with other organisms in (...)
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    The immune system and its ecology.Alfred I. Tauber - 2008 - Philosophy of Science 75 (2):224-245.
    In biology, the ‘ecological orientation' rests on a commitment to examining systems, and the conceptual challenge of defining that system now employs techniques and concepts adapted from diverse disciplines (i.e., systems philosophy, cybernetics, information theory, computer science) that are applied to biological simulations and model building. Immunology has joined these efforts, and the question posed here is whether the discipline will remain committed to its theoretical concerns framed by the notions of protecting an insular self, an entity demarcated from its (...)
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    The elusive synthesis: aesthetics and science.Alfred I. Tauber (ed.) - 1996 - Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
    This collection of essays ranges from phenomenological descriptions of the beautiful in science to analytical explorations of the philosophical conjunction of ...
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    Requiem for the Ego: Freud and the Origins of Postmodernism.Alfred I. Tauber - 2013 - Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
    _Requiem for the Ego_ recounts Freud's last great attempt to 'save' the autonomy of the ego, which drew philosophical criticism from the most prominent philosophers of the period—Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. Despite their divergent orientations, each contested the ego's capacity to represent mental states through word and symbol to an agent surveying its own cognizance. By discarding the subject-object divide as a model of the mind, they dethroned Freud's depiction of the ego as a conceit of a misleading self-consciousness and (...)
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    Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing.Alfred I. Tauber - 2001 - University of California Press.
    In his graceful philosophical account, Alfred I. Tauber shows why Thoreau still seems so relevant today—more relevant in many respects than he seemed to his contemporaries. Although Thoreau has been skillfully and thoroughly examined as a writer, naturalist, mystic, historian, social thinker, Transcendentalist, and lifelong student, we may find in Tauber's portrait of Thoreau the moralist a characterization that binds all these aspects of his career together. Thoreau was caught at a critical turn in the history of science, between the (...)
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    Acknowledgments.Alfred I. Tauber - 2010 - In Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher. Princeton University Press.
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  17. Immunology and the enigma of selfhood.Alfred I. Tauber & Mn Norton Wise - 2004 - In M. Norton Wise (ed.), Growing explanations: historical perspectives on recent science. Durham: Duke University Press.
     
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    Immunology's Theories of Cognition.Alfred I. Tauber - 2013 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 35 (2):239-264.
    Contemporary immunology has established its fundamental theory as a biological expression of personal identity, wherein the "immune self" is defended by the immune system. Protection of this agent putatively requires a cognitive capacity by which the self and the foreign are perceived and thereby discriminated; from such information, discernment of the environment is achieved and activation of pathways leading to an immune response may be initiated. This so-called cognitive paradigm embeds such functions as "perception," "recognition," "learning," and "memory" to characterize (...)
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    Frank Macfarlane Burnet and the immune self.Alfred I. Tauber & Scott H. Podolsky - 1994 - Journal of the History of Biology 27 (3):531-573.
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    Postmodernism and Immune Selfhood.Alfred I. Tauber - 1995 - Science in Context 8 (4):579-607.
    The ArgumentTwo research traditions in immunology, supposedly centered on the same issue of immune identification, have followed different theoretical goals and originated form competing phillosophical foundations. these may be labelled modernist and postmodernist, respectively, thereby applying cultural and philosophical categories to immunology in order to articulate potential scientific resonances with the broader culture. To accept that exercise and important caveat is imposed, namely, this translation is most appropriately discussed at the level of metaphor. In other words, I will structure my (...)
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    Freud’s dreams of reason: the Kantian structure of psychoanalysis.Alfred I. Tauber - 2009 - History of the Human Sciences 22 (4):1-29.
    Freud (and later commentators) have failed to explain how the origins of psychoanalytical theory began with a positivist investment without recognizing a dual epistemological commitment: simply, Freud engaged positivism because he believed it generally equated with empiricism, which he valued, and he rejected ‘philosophy’, and, more specifically, Kantianism, because of the associated transcendental qualities of its epistemology. But this simple dismissal belies a deep investment in Kant’s formulation of human reason, in which rationality escapes natural cause and thereby bestows humans (...)
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    Historical and Philosophical Reflections on Patient Autonomy.Alfred I. Tauber - 2001 - Health Care Analysis 9 (3):299-319.
    Contemporary American medical ethics was born during a period of social ferment, a key theme of which was the espousal of individual rights. Driven by complex cultural forces united in the effort to protect individuality and self-determined choices, an extrapolation from case law to rights of patients was accomplished under the philosophical auspices of ‘autonomy’. Autonomy has a complex history; arising in the modern period as the idea of self-governance, it received its most ambitious philosophical elaboration in Kant's moral philosophy. (...)
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    The elusive immune self: a case of category errors.Alfred I. Tauber - 1999 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 42 (4):459-474.
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    Historical and Philosophical Perspectives concerning Immune Cognition.Alfred I. Tauber - 1997 - Journal of the History of Biology 30 (3):419 - 440.
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    The idea of immunity: Metchnikoff's metaphysics and science.Leon Chernyak & Alfred I. Tauber - 1990 - Journal of the History of Biology 23 (2):187-249.
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    A typology of Nietzsche's biology.Alfred I. Tauber - 1994 - Biology and Philosophy 9 (1):25-44.
    Friedrich Nietzsche''s will to power, and the philosophical ediface built on this foundation, is formulated on a biologicism that is indebted to a particular post-Darwinian vision of the organism. Of the various models that attempt to formulate a comprehensive organismal biology, Nietzsche unknowingly grasped that of Elie Metchnikoff, who authored the theoretical foundation of modern immunology. Metchnikoff regarded the organism as a disharmonious entity, in constant inner strife between competing cellular activities. Immune functions were responsible for mediating harmonization, which however (...)
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    (1 other version)Freud’s social theory: Modernist and postmodernist revisions.Alfred I. Tauber - 2012 - History of the Human Sciences 25 (4):43-72.
    Acknowledging the power of the id-drives, Freud held on to the authority of reason as the ego’s best tool to control instinctual desire. He thereby placed analytic reason at the foundation of his own ambivalent social theory, which, on the one hand, held utopian promise based upon psychoanalytic insight, and, on the other hand, despaired of reason’s capacity to control the self-destructive elements of the psyche. Moving beyond the recourse of sublimation, post-Freudians attacked reason’s hegemony in quelling disruptive psycho-dynamics and, (...)
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    In search of medicine's moral glue.Alfred I. Tauber - 2006 - American Journal of Bioethics 6 (1):41 – 44.
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    The reflexive project: reconstructing the moral agent.Alfred I. Tauber - 2005 - History of the Human Sciences 18 (4):49-75.
    In the 17th century, ‘reflexivity’ was coined as a new term for introspection and self-awareness. It thus was poised to serve the instrumental function of combating skepticism by asserting a knowing self. In this Cartesian paradigm, introspection ends in an entity of self-identity. An alternate interpretation recognized how an infinite regress of reflexivity would render ‘the self’ elusive, if not unknowable. Reflexivity in this latter mode was rediscovered by post-Kantian philosophers, most notably Hegel, who defined the self in its self-reflective (...)
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    From Descartes' Dream to Husserl's Nightmare.Alfred I. Tauber - 1996 - In The elusive synthesis: aesthetics and science. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 289--312.
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    The immunological self: a centenary perspective.Alfred I. Tauber - 1991 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 35 (1):74.
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    Concerning individuality.Leon Chernyak & Alfred I. Tauber - 1992 - Biology and Philosophy 7 (4):489-499.
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    A hypothesis: Establishing the microbiome through immune mimicry (comment on DOI 10.1002/bies.201600083).Alfred I. Tauber - 2016 - Bioessays 38 (11):1062-1062.
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    Revisiting Hume's law.Steven P. Segal & Alfred I. Tauber - 2007 - American Journal of Bioethics 7 (11):43 – 45.
  35. Holoimmunity Revisited.Bartlomiej Swiatczak & Alfred I. Tauber - 2018 - Bioessays 40 (11):1800117.
    Commensal and pathogenic organisms employ camouflage and mimicry to mediate mutualistic interactions and predator escape. However, the immune mechanisms accounting for the establishment and maintenance of symbiotic bacterial populations are poorly understood. A promising hypothesis suggests that molecular mimicry, a condition in which different organisms share common antigens, is a mechanism of establishing tolerance between commensals and their hosts. On this view, certain bacteria may mimic the structural features of some of their host’s T-cell receptors (TCRs), namely those that survive (...)
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    Autonomy Gone Mad.Alfred I. Tauber - 2003 - Philosophy in the Contemporary World 10 (1):75-80.
    Medicine’s fundamental moral philosophy is the responsibility of caring for the ill, yet beneficence is not under the province of the law.Indeed, fiduciary responsibilities of doctors are limited. Instead, American law is preoccupied with protecting patient rights under the precept of patient autonomy, and contemporary medical ethics is dominated by these concerns. The extrapolation of autonomy rights from the political and judicial culture to medicine is, under ordinary circumstance, non-problematic. However, in instances of conflict, the dominance of autonomy reveals a (...)
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    Response to Melvin Cohn.Alfred I. Tauber - 1998 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 19 (5):485-494.
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    The Philosopher as Prophet.Alfred I. Tauber - 2003 - Philosophy in the Contemporary World 10 (2):89-103.
    Emerson articulated his metaphysics of selfhood within a theistic framework; Thoreau reconfigured his ideas as a mystical pantheism. In this latter form, Transcendentalism offered twentieth century Americans a new religious sensibility based on an intimacy with nature, which became a spiritual and aesthetic resource for personal fulfillment.
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    The Rational Unconscious: The Freudian Mind Reconsidered.Alfred I. Tauber - 2013 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 20 (3):255-259.
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    Freud without Oedipus: The Cognitive Unconscious.Alfred I. Tauber - 2013 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 20 (3):231-241.
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    Hacia una nueva ética médica.Alfred I. Tauber - 2012 - Dilemata 8:1-25.
    By means of a series of autobiographical vignettes, plus personal reflection upon the medical and philosophico-political traditions, this paper criticizes how medical ethics and other applied ethics have been taught in American universities. Arguing against both paternalism and autonomism, the author provides a sketch of his philosophy of medicine and how it fits with several scientific and juridical models, within the background of a process of dehumanization of the health care relationship.
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    Responsibility.Roger T. Ames, Thomas M. Chappell, M. David Eckel, Anna Lännström, Margaret R. Miles, Andrea Nightingale, Bhikhu Parekh, Steven C. Rockefeller, David Roochnik, Alfred I. Tauber & Michael Zank - 2007 - Lexington Books.
    In this book philosophers, scholars of religion, and activists address the theme of responsibility. Barbara Darling-Smith brings together an enlightening collection of essays that analyze the ethics of responsibility, its relational nature, and its global struggle.
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    (1 other version)An Introduction: The Symposium on The Evolution of Individuality by Leo W. Buss.Scott F. Gilbert, Sahotra Sarkar & Alfred I. Tauber - 1992 - Biology and Philosophy 7 (4):461-462.
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  44. Book reviews-the evolutionary biology papers of Elie metchnikoff.Helena Gourko, Donald I. Williamson, Alfred I. Tauber & Uwe Hossfeld - 2002 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 24 (2):324-325.
     
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    Announcement.Alfred I. Tauber - 2001 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 32 (1):201-205.
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    Contents.Alfred I. Tauber - 2010 - In Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher. Princeton University Press.
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    Chapter Four. The Paradox of Freedom.Alfred I. Tauber - 2010 - In Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher. Princeton University Press. pp. 116-145.
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    Chapter Five The Odd Triangle: Kant, Nietzsche, and Freud.Alfred I. Tauber - 2010 - In Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher. Princeton University Press. pp. 146-173.
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    Crafting Immunity. Working Histories of Clinical Immunology.Alfred I. Tauber - 2010 - Annals of Science 67 (2):274-277.
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    Chapter One. The Challenge of Philosophy.Alfred I. Tauber - 2010 - In Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher. Princeton University Press. pp. 24-53.
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