10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TELEONOMIC»
Discover the use of
teleonomic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
teleonomic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Repetition and Trauma: Toward A
Teleonomic Theory of ...
The culmination of over three decades of investigation into traumatic processes, Repetition and Trauma is the late Max Stern's pioneering reconceptualization of trauma in the light of recent insights into the physiology and psychology of ...
Max M. Stern, Liselotte Bendix Stern, 2013
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Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an ...
For the last 1 5 years or so the term teleonomic has been used increasingly often
for goal-directed processes in organisms. I proposed in 1961 the following
definition for this term: "It would seem useful to restrict the term teleonomic rigidly
to ...
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Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays
Teleological. and. Teleonomic: A. New. Analysis. Teleological language is
frequently used in biology in order to make statements about the functions of
organs, about physiological processes, and about the behavior and actions of
species and ...
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Mathematical Models in Agriculture: Quantitative Methods for ...
Teleonomic is a term which describes models (submodels) which are apparently
goal-seeking: 'apparently' because science denies the true existence of goal-
seeking behaviour. That is, some responses may appear goal-seeking, but there
is ...
J. H. M. Thornley, J. France, 2007
Teleonomic explanations, however, are explanations in terms of function and as
such refer to future states in only a restricted manner. Functional explanations
can, in principle, be reduced to mechanistic ones: Given perfect understanding of
...
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Environmental Gene Release: Models, Experiments and Risk ...
The observational data are not of sufficient quality to discriminate unambiguously
between these alternative teleonomic interpretations, but nevertheless such goal-
directed models have been incorporated, with a degree of success, into some ...
Michael J. Bazin, J.M. Lynch, 1994
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What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and ...
What Nagel can argue is that the same phenomenally goaldirected process
could be explained either as teleomatic or as teleonomic. Nagel does, however,
point to a problem with talk about internal representation insofar as the distinction
...
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From Cause to Causation: A Peircean Perspective
Furthermore, teleonomic processes occur only in living nature. Mayr's so called
fundamental distinction between teleonomic and teleomatic processes is based
on four concepts: ( 1 ) automatism, (2) program, (3a) external impediments, and ...
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What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy ...
It is sometimes stated that Pittendrigh and I introduced the term teleonomic as a
substitute for the term teleologi- cal. This is not correct; rather it is a term for only
one of the five different meanings of the highly heterogeneous term teleological.
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What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology
If you want to predict the actions of a crouching lion preparing to pounce on an
unsuspecting zebra, a mother tending to her young, a lawyer planning to sue you
on behalf of an aggrieved client, or indeed any other teleonomic action, the laws
...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TELEONOMIC»
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teleonomic is used in the context of the following news items.
Creating teleonomic environments
These tubes that recoil to the ceiling when someone approaches and return to their original position when the person leaves are examples of teleonomic ... «University at Buffalo Reporter, Apr 08»
Design Yes, Intelligent No: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory …
Dembski maintains that Bacon and his followers did away with both formal and final causes (the so-called teleonomic causes, because they answer the question ... «Skeptical Inquirer, Jan 08»
Julian Huxley And The Idolatry Of Evolution
The evolutionary process is thus not teleological, directed by some consciously purposeful logic, but teleonomic, automatically moving in the direction of ... «American Thinker, Sep 07»
