The enactive approach challenges the idea that the mind is confined to the individual, instead of emphasizing its emergence through dynamic interactions between self-constituting identities and their ...

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A collaboration between Dialetical Systems and Brain Inspired: Andrea Gambarotto speaks to Paul Middlebrooks on the relaton between life and mind, and the role dialectics can play in making sense of t...

Abstract. To perform the work necessary to maintain themselves in diverse situations, organismsorchestrate the operations of a host of production mechanisms that individually performspecific physiolog...

September 11th-13th 2026 University of Oslo (building and room number to be announced) A Novel “Third Way:” Synthesizing Autonomy and New Mechanism in the Philosophy of Biology 1) Workshop Coordinator...

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...

The journal Marxism & Sciences has announced a special issue on Dialectics and Life, calling for abstracts that explore the crucial relation between dialectical thinking and the complex entanglement o...

This paper examines the relation between embodiment and sociality within the enactive approach, highlighting the continuity between biological autonomy and social normativity. The central claim is tha...

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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This paper aims to build a theoretical bridge between the Marxist and enactive traditions by focusing on the concept of labor. While labor represents a central component of human experience, it remain...

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...

Our paper explores new potentials for productive dialogue between public engagement with science (PEWS) and radical embodied cognitive science (RECS).…

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...

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....

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 ...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Towards Comparative Philosophy of Science (Special Issue of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science) Guest editors: Simon Lohse (Nijmegen) & Karim Bschir (St....

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By Ioannis Trisokkas. Published open-access by Cambridge University Press. Summary: This Element discusses Heidegger’s early (1924–1931) reading and critique of Hegel, which revolve around the topic o...

Biological systems comprise multiple levels of organization , from molecules, organelles, and cells, to the multi-cellular structures that form whole tissues, organisms, and ultimately societies and …

A new vision of the brain as a fully integrated, networked organ.Popular neuroscience accounts often focus on specific mind-brain aspects like addiction, cog...

CFA: Prospects for the Science of Enaction Guest Editors: Russell Meyer, Jodie Russell, Marilyn StenderaDeadline for Abstracts: January 27th The editors invite abstracts for contributions to the Speci...