Vital Normativity
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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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One of the speakers at the What Is Life symposium taking place between the 24th and 25th November 2023 is going to be Konrad Werner, a philosopher based…
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Not by structures alone: Can the immune system recognize microbial functions? (Gregor P. Greslehner)
One of the speakers at the “What Is Life?” symposium is going to be Gregor P. Greslehner, a philosopher of science, trained in philosophy and molecular biology. Currently,…
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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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The paper investigates the phenomenon of vitalism through the lens of vital normativity as expounded by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Georges Canguilhem. I argue that the two authors independently…