The Riddle of Organismal Agency : New Historical and Philosophical Reflections (Paperback)

1 Organismal Agency: A Persistent Riddle in the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Alejandro Fabregas-Tejeda, Jan Baedke, Guido I. Prieto and Gregory Radick

Part I: Trajectories of Organismal Agency in the History of the Life Sciences and Philosophy

2 The Problem of “Organismal Agency” in the History of the Life Sciences
Maurizio Esposito

3 Charting Contrasting Stances on Organismal Purposiveness and Agency in Early Twentieth-Century Biology
Alejandro Fabregas-Tejeda

4 Plant Agency: A Short History from Kant to Plant Psychology, then to Holism, and Back Again
Jan Baedke

5 Behavior, Purpose and Teleology Revisited: Locating Cybernetic Teleology in Twentieth-Century Holism
Auguste Nahas

Part II: Evolutionary Perspectives on Agency

6 The Baldwin Effect and the Potentialities for Thoughtful Darwinism around 1900
Gregory Radick

7 The Higher-Order Norm of Reaction: Biological Agency and Adaptive Phenotypic Response
Denis M. Walsh and Sonia E. Sultan

8 A Critique of the Agential Stance in Development and Evolution
Henry D. Potter and Kevin J. Mitchell

Part III: Behaviour, Scientific Practice, and Self-Individuation

9 In Defense of the Whole: Behavioral Novelty as a Reflection of Organismal Agency
Gregory M. Kohn

10 Chimpanzees as “Resisters” or “Collaborators”:  Animal Agency in Biomedical and Psychology Experiments at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and the Yale Laboratories for Primate Biology in the US (1903?1930)
Marion Thomas

11 Self-Individuation, Environment, and Agency: Comparing Plessner and Autopoietic Enactivism
Francesca Michelini

Part IV: Theoretical and Metaphysical Frameworks for Organismal Agency

12 Agency as Internal Control
Gunnar Babcock and Daniel W. McShea

13 How Autonomy Theory Naturalizes Agency, and Why It Matters
Louis Virenque

14 Organismal Agency as a (Partly Psychological) Capacity
Bendik Hellem Aaby