New paper out by our former visiting fellow Alberto Monterde Fuertes! It examines the methodological decisions structuring inquiry in engaged philosophy of science. Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #PhilSci
Leonardo Bich
@leonardobich.bsky.social
Associate Research Professor at the IAS-Research Center for Life, Mind and Society of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain. https://leonardobich.wordpress.com/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leonardo-Bich
The special issue of Biological Theory "Continually Discovering Complexity: Essays in Honor of William Bechtel" is finally out with all the contributions, including ours! @lauramenatti.bsky.social #philbio #philmed @biologicaltheory.bsky.social link.springer.com/journal/1375...
Biological Theory
Biological Theory is devoted to theoretical advances in the fields of evolution and cognition with an emphasis on the conceptual integration afforded by ...
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The dialectical underpinnings of multilevel selection Evolution isn’t flat: new levels arise through conflict and then reshape the very dynamics that brought them into being
The Dialectics of Multi-Level Selection in Evolutionary Biology - Dialectical Systems
Introduction Dialectical thinking in biology has famously been put forward by the eponymous book of Levins and Lewontin (1985). Much of the book was dedicated to the interpenetration between organisms...
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Happy to share this paper of mine! It took me a long time, but may it be a salutogenic beginning for everyone! #salutogenesis #health #environment #philsci #philmed www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Medicine, healthcare and the environment: from the salutogenic approach towards the salutogenic environments
Research in medicine is increasingly calling for greater attention to the importance of the environment and the effects of climate change. In this pap…
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💸¿Salario emocional? Preferimos salario REAL. El Supremo da la razón a CCOO sobre los impagos al Personal Investigador Margarita Salas y María Zambrano en la UPV/EHU. ¿Qué opinas de la gestión del Rectorado? 👇 ccooupvehu.blogspot.com/2026/01/Vict... #MargaritaSalas #MaríaZambrano
👤Leonardo Bich (University of the Basque Country): The Organizational Foundations of Minimal Cognition: Regulatory Heterarchical Control. #WorkshopOnMinimalCognition
New chapter co-authored with William Bechtel on the notion of heterarchy #philbio "Autonomy and Heterarchy: Organizing Control in Biological Organisms" link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Autonomy and Heterarchy: Organizing Control in Biological Organisms
In order to maintain themselves as systems far from equilibrium with their environment, organisms must control the operation of numerous production mechanisms. Control involves mechanisms that make or...
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Me, on Friday, after months of writing and years of doing philosophy. One of the most important qualifications of French research. Honored and a bit anxious ;) #france #research #philosophy #HDR #environment #health ihpst.pantheonsorbonne.fr/actualite/so...
Soutenance HDR - IHPST
Laura MENATTI soutiendra son habilitation à diriger des recherches de l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne le vendredi 7 novembre 2025 à 14h dans la Salle de conférences de l’IHPST (13 rue du Four, ...
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➡️New article out⬅️ @leonardobich.bsky.social and @lauramenatti.bsky.social argue that health is not about balance or stability, but about adapting and transforming in response to changing circumstances — the capacity for adaptive change. link.springer.com/journal/13752
How did regulation and agency arise before genes? Shirt-Ediss et al. model evolving protocell ecologies with the Araudia platform—showing how simple metabolic systems can “learn” to adapt to changing environments dialecticalsystems.eu/publications...
New Paper (2025): Modelling the prebiotic origins of regulation and agency in evolving protocell ecologies - Dialectical Systems
How could the first living systems learn to regulate themselves before the emergence of genes? In their new paper, Ben Shirt-Ediss, Arián Ferrero-Fernández, Daniele De Martino, Leonardo Bich, Álvaro M...
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Happy to announce our new paper co-authored with @lauramenatti.bsky.social on the relationship between homeostasis and health just published open access in Biological Theory! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change - Biological Theory
All living systems need to regulate themselves and coordinate the activities of their parts to maintain themselves under changing conditions. Historically, homeostasis is one of the central ideas that...
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📖 New Book Out Alvaro Moreno & Juli Peretó explore the major transitions in biological agency—from origins of life to metazoans—showing how agency drives the evolution of biological complexity www.dialecticalsystems.eu/publications...
New paper: "Modelling the prebiotic origins of regulation and agency in evolving protocell ecologies" Happy to have participated in this work! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Modelling the prebiotic origins of regulation and agency in evolving protocell ecologies | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
How and why did natural systems develop the first mechanisms of regulation? How could they turn into adaptive agents in a minimal (though deeply meaningful) biological sense? A novel simulation platform, Araudia, has been implemented to address these ...
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Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin A hybrid conference bringing together voices old and new to revisit how The Dialectical Biologist still resonates, and reinvigorates, contemporary biology www.dialecticalsystems.eu/events/diale...
#ISHPSSB2925 program booklet is out! Check it out here ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/wp-content/u... #hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts
Heading to #ishpssb2025 #ish2025 to present our paper coauthored with @lauramenatti.bsky.social “Homeostasis and Health: from balance to change” recently accepted for publication in Biological Theory
Today we celebrate the new edition of Varela’s Principles of Biological Autonomy (1979) from MIT Press, with a new critical apparatus by Ezequiel Di Paolo & Evan Thompson, reconnecting Varela's legacy in cognitive science to his theoretical biology dialecticalsystems.eu/publications...
New edition of Principles of Biological Autonomy - Dialectical Systems
Today, we celebrate the new publication of Principles of Biological Autonomy (1979) by MIT Press, now accompanied by a new critical apparatus by Ezequiel Di Paolo and Evan Thompson.Varela’s ideas cont...
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Next week, thrilled to go back to #Paris #sciencespo to give a talk about 'Landscapes and medical spaces: psychological and philosophical perspectives' #health #natural and #built #environments #landscape #philosophy #psychology. www.sciencespo.fr/institut-tra...
AIRE Annual Conference
This event will assemble the burgeoning environmental research community at Sciences Po, along with external partners. The agenda includes three panel sessions, a lunch, two keynote lectures and a clo...
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Embodied & enactive approaches aren’t just about individual cognition — they’re about society. A new Mind & Society special issue brings enactivism into conversation with ethics, social theory & political philosophy. www.dialecticalsystems.eu/publications...
Henry Potter and @wiringthebrain.bsky.social challenge reductive views in neuroscience by introducing richer, temporally extended notions of causality and arguing to re-center cognition and the organism as genuine causal agents in behavior onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience
The search for neural mechanisms of behaviour often relies on a synchronic, driving view of causation, where neural activity drives more neural activity, which eventually drives behaviour. The real c...
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Adaptivity is central to life, yet conceptually homeless. While adaptation is tied to selection, adaptivity is an ongoing organismal process—rooted in metabolism, not just evolutionary causation www.dialecticalsystems.eu/contribution...
The Philosophy of Adaptivity - Dialectical Systems
At the core of life is adaptivity, the organismal process of adjusting to ever-changing conditions. But despite its centrality, adaptivity is a surprisingly lonely concept. Its most immediate lexical ...
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Asking for a friend: Has it ever happened to you that a manuscript had been ‘awaiting decision’ for 4 months? No replies from the editors. This is problematic especially for non-tenured scholars.
yes, it's me! Also in French #paris #philosophy #ihpst #sorbonne after two months of visiting and becoming associated here 📚✨ ihpst.pantheonsorbonne.fr/actualite/po...
Portrait de Laura Menatti - chercheuse invitée - IHPST
Laura Menatti est une chercheuse interdisciplinaire en philosophie des sciences et de la médecine, spécialisée dans la théorie et l'épistémologie du paysage et l'urbanisme. Titulaire de deux doctorats...
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🥳Happy to share I've been appointed as an associate researcher at the Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne & CNRS. #philsci #science #philosophy #Paris ihpst.pantheonsorbonne.fr lauramenatti.weebly.com/about-me.html
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New paper on homeostasis with William Bechtel finally out in Philosophy of Science: " Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists" @ias-research.bsky.social @dialecticalsys.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists
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Next Tuesday at 11:30, we will have the pleasure of welcoming 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐞́ (UPF, Barcelona), who will give a talk entitled ❞𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬❞ www.ias-research.net/blog/2025/02...
So happy: for the next 2 months I'll be visiting the Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des sciences et des Techniques (IHPST), Paris 1 Sorbonne. Thrilled to have received a fellowship to work on #environment #health #philosophy of #science in this amazing place. ihpst.pantheonsorbonne.fr
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I have finally received the hardcopies of my Element! Dracula is congratulating me after licking the book! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
New OA paper by Charbel El-Hani et al. explores how living beings are individuated as causal systems via biological autonomy, with closure of constraints as a distinctively biological causal regime that defines system boundaries. 🔗 taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
