Code
When Worlds Collide: Philosophy & Code
In my former life, I investigated the code of life — in my present, I bring code to life. I talk about this transition with RedMonk's Kate Holterhoff on her show, The Docs Are In
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Philosophy
The Limits of Force to Explain Life
Kant’s denial that natural science could explain the organism unintentionally brought the organism concept to the forefront of philosophic and scientific discourse in the 1790s and beyond. It also helped to shed light on those who were reimagining the forces at work in the living world.
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Philosophy
The Algal Organism at the Beginning of Biology
The history of Blumenbach's Conferva fontinalis essay, and why the alga should be considered a proto-model organism
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Philosophy
A Series of Connected Events
J. G. Herder's influence on C. F. Kielmeyer's influential talk, "On the Relations of the Organic Forces to One Another."
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Philosophy
What’s an Organism among Friends?
A reassessment of Kant and Blumenbach's intellectual relationship, especially as it pertains to the history of biology.
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Philosophy
The Epistemic Foundations of German Biology
A reassessment of the beginning of biology, from Kant's third Critique to Treviranus's Biologie.
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Philosophy
Toward a Non-Anthropocentric Vision of Nature
An essay about the poet Goethe's discovery of the intermaxillary bone and its importance for the history of biology and environmental philosophy.
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Philosophy
The Conceptual Foundations of the Anthropocene
Considerations of the Anthropocene and the German Romanticist F. W. J. Schelling
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Philosophy
An Incunabulum of Posthumanism
In this new genealogy of posthumanism, I trace the concept back to the thinking of Neohegelian Max Stirner.
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