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We have a new website for the upcoming symposium. Check it out – What Is Life: Beyond Reductionism Symposium
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The Loch NESS Monster – Free Energy and Life Over the last two decades Friston’s Free Energy Principle has morphed from a model of the brain into a…
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We are very happy to present our next speaker at the “What Is Life?” symposium: Anne Sophie Meincke – a philosopher of biology, who is not afraid to…
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“I am a systems scientist, an evolutionary biologist, and a natural philosopher with an extremely transdisciplinary track record”, writes Johannes Jaeger, one of the speakers at the upcoming…
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In our last post we presented an illustrative example of normative value arising out of a self-sustaining life form. We saw that the normative dimension, which differentiates between…
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Welcome to the Vital Normativity Project Blog! We are delighted that you share our enthusiasm for exploring alternative ways of understanding life. In this post, I will try…
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“Before this position [in the gallery] there was without doubt nothing. And certainly nothing will remove it. This position is not, as Husserl would have it, a captured-understanding…
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Ouroboros, XI. Speaker of the day: Andreas Weber Topic: Varela, Weber, “Life after Kant – Natural purposes and the autopoietic foundations of biological individuality” (2002)
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Ouroboros, V. Speaker of the day: Ezequiel Di Paolo Topic: Varela, “Organism: A Meshwork of Selfless Selves” (1991) & “Patterns of Life” (1997)
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Ouroboros, I. Speaker of the day: Louis Kauffman Topic: Varela, “Calculus of Self-Reference” (1975) and Varela & Gougen, “The Arithmetic of Closure” (1978)