Organon F
Volume 30, August 2023, Issue 3, Pages 222–254
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article
Causal Capabilities of Teleology and Teleonomy in Life and Evolution
Jonathan Bartlett
Teleological causes have been generally disfavored in biological explanations because they have been thought to lack rigor or act as stand-ins for non-teleological processes which are simply not yet understood sufficiently. Teleological explanations in biology have been limited to only teleonomic causes, which are teleological causes that are due to codes or similarly reified mechanisms. However, advances in the conceptualization of teleological and teleonomic causation have allowed for more quantitative analyses of both. Additionally, although teleonomy has been historically excluded from potential causes of evolution, new research has shown that teleonomy actually plays a significant role in evolution. Combining these advances with advances in computability theory and information theory have allowed for a more rigorous and quantitative analysis of the capabilities and limitations of teleonomy in evolution.
Teleology; teleonomy; evolution; information theory; active information; causation.
Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Affiliation
The Blyth Institute
Address
The Blyth Institute, Broken Arrow, Tulsa, OK, USA
Received
6 February 2023
Revised
3 July 2023
Accepted
28 July 2023
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Bartlett, J. (2023). Causal Capabilities of Teleology and Teleonomy in Life and Evolution. Organon F, 30(3), 222–254. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30301
Chicago
Bartlett, Jonathan. 2023. "Causal Capabilities of Teleology and Teleonomy in Life and Evolution." Organon F 30 (3): 222–254. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30301
Harvard
Bartlett, J. (2023). Causal Capabilities of Teleology and Teleonomy in Life and Evolution. Organon F, 30(3), pp. 222–254. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30301
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