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Dupré on process biology

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Science & society, tagged , , , on September 1, 2014 | 1 Comment »

Writing in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science blog Auxiliary Hypotheses, widely published University of Exeter philosopher John Dupré recently announced a project entitled A Process Ontology for Contemporary Biology (PROBIO). According to Dupré, who is director of Egenis, the Center for the Study of the Life Sciences (formerly the ESRC Center for Genomics and Society), […]

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For a moratorium on “constructivism”

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on April 30, 2011 | 8 Comments »

I’d like to call a moratorium on the use of the word “constructivism” (or “constructionism”) to refer only to social constructivism. (This post was prompted by Tim  Morton’s Object-Oriented Strategies for Ecological Art, but his point there is somewhat differently directed and mine addresses a more general issue that can still be found in a […]

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open-source socialism & the politics of self-organizing systems

Posted in Media ecology, Philosophy, Politics, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , on May 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »

(On Kevin Kelly’s “The New Socialism,” Paul Ward’s Medea Hypothesis, Steven Shaviro’s “Against Self-Organization,” and more.) Self-organizing adaptive systems and other networks are more than just the flavor of the philosophical month; they are a model increasingly used to make sense of the natural and cultural worlds. Generally it’s assumed that such distributed self-organization is […]

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Kauffman, Shaviro, Goodwin, et al.

Posted in Philosophy, Science & society, Spirit matter, tagged , , , on February 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Complexity theorist Stuart Kaufmann recently gave a talk here from his book Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion, which is getting more press these days than most books with a Spinozian/Whiteheadian take on the emergent nature of intelligence, complexity, spirituality, and all that. Talking to him afterwards, I was a […]

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