AIMC Topic: Metaphysics

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On the relationship between scientific theory and ontology in everything flows.

History and philosophy of the life sciences
In their anthology Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology, Daniel J. Nicholson and John Dupré argue that modern theories of biology imply that the fundamental structure of reality is processual at its core. In the present work, ...

DNA is not an ontologically distinctive developmental cause.

Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences
In this article I critically evaluate the thesis that DNA is an ontologically distinctive developmental cause. I shall critically analyse different versions of the latter thesis by taking into consideration concrete developmental cases. I shall argue...