Philosophy of Biology

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Resources

• MIT Open Courseware’s Systems Biology Fall 2014

• “The math of Living Things” article

Programmable Artificial Life.

• [ y ] 07-10-2023. “Isotropic Neural Cellular Automata”.

• [ y ] 12-23-2022. “Particle Lenia”.

Tom Mohr

• [ y ] 04-16-2023. “The code behind Particle Life”.

• [ y ] 12-08-2022. “How Particle Life emerges from simplicity”.

[ y ] 05-28-2023. Birdbrain. “Lenia - Artificial Life from Algorithms”.

[ y ] 09-21-2024 Closer to Truth. “Alan Love - Philosophy of Genes & Biology”.

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Texts

• Alon, Uri. (2019). An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits, 2nd Ed. CRC Press.

• Duchesneau, François. (1997). Philosophie de la biologie. Presses universitaires de France.

• Glaser, Roland. (2012). Biophysics: An Introduction. Springer.

• Keller, Evelyn Fox. (2002). Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines. Harvard Universtiy Press.

• Keller, Evelyn Fox. (2000). The Century of the Gene. Harvard University Press.

• Kuldell, Natalie et al. (2015). BioBuilder: Synthetic Biology in the Lab. O’Reilly. Home.

• Nelson, Philip. (2020). Biological Physics: Energy, Information, Life.

• Nelson, Philip. (2017). From Photon to Neuron: Light, Imaging, Vision. Princeton University Press.

• Nelson, Philip. (2014). Physical Models of Living Systems.

• Parke, William C. Biophysics: A Student’s Guide to the Physics of the Life Sciences and Medicine. Springer.

• Turing, Alan. (1952). “The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis”.

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Figures

• [W] Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)

• [W] Dawkins, Richard (1941-)

• [W] Godfrey-Smith, Peter (1965-)

• [W] Gould, Stephen Jay (1941-2002)

• [W] Grosholz, Emily (1950-)

• [W] Hull, David (1935-2010)

• [W] Huxley, Julian (1887-1975)

• [W] Keller, Evelyn Fox (1936-)

• [W] Turing, Alan (1912-1952)

• [W] Wilson, Edward (1929-2021)

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Terms

• [W] Abiogenesis

• [W] Allopoiesis

• [W] Artificial Life

• [W] Autopoiesis

• [W] Biochemsitry

• [W] Biocybernetics

• [W] Bioinformatics

• [W] Biological Organization

• [W] Biological Structuralism

• [W] Biomimetics

• [W] Bionics

• [W] Biosemiotics

• [W] Biosphere

• [W] Biotechnology

• [W] Cellular Senescence

• [W] Chemoton

• [W] Collective Intelligence

• [W] Complex System

• [W] DNA Computing

• [W] Élan Vital

• [W] Emergence

• [W] Feedback

• [W] Gaia Hypothesis

• [W] Gene Ontology

• [W] Holobiont

• [W] Hologenome Theory of Evolution

• [W] Homeostasis

• [W] Lotka-Volterra Equations

• [W] Mathematical Biology

• [W] Molecular Biology

• [W] Morphogenesis

• [W] Negligible Senescence

• [W] Organismic Computing

• [W] Patterns in Nature

• [W][S] Philosophy of Biology

• [W] Quorum Sensing

• [W] Reaction-Diffusion

• [W] Senescence

• [W] Stigmergy

• [W] Superorganism

• [W] Symmetry in Biology

• [W] Synergy

• [W] Systems Biology

• [W] Systems Theory

• [W] Swarm Intelligence

• [W] Tensegrity

• [W] Turing Pattern

• [W] Vitalism

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