Charbel N El-Hani
I am a Professor at the Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, where I coordinate the History, Philosophy, and Biology Teaching Laboratory.
I obtained my Bachelor degree in Biology from Federal University of Bahia, in 1992; my Master degree in Education from Federal University of Bahia, in 1995; my Doctoral degree in Education from University of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2000. I worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, with Claus Emmeche, from 2003 to 2004.
I coordinate the National institute of Science and Technology in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution (IN-TREE), supported by CNPq and FAPESB, which gathers together around 200 researchers from 13 Brazilian and 35 foreign institutions.
I am the Book Review Editor of the journal Science & Education. I coordinate the science popularization initiative Cafe Scientifique Salvador (http://cafecientificossa.blogspot.com) and write in the Blog Darwinianas (https://darwinianas.com/), linked to IN-TREE.
I am Vice-President of the Brazilian Association for History and Philosophy of Biology (ABFHIB).
My lab is linked to a virtual community of practice (ComPratica) and a collaborative research group involving primary and high school teachers, undergraduate and graduate students, preservice teachers, and researchers.
I receive a grant for productivity in research level 1B from the Brazilian National Research Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).
Main research interests: Science Education Research, Philosophy of Biology, History of Biology, Evolutionary Biology and Animal Behaviour.
The complete CV can be found at http://lattes.cnpq.br/8022297490892415
I obtained my Bachelor degree in Biology from Federal University of Bahia, in 1992; my Master degree in Education from Federal University of Bahia, in 1995; my Doctoral degree in Education from University of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2000. I worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, with Claus Emmeche, from 2003 to 2004.
I coordinate the National institute of Science and Technology in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution (IN-TREE), supported by CNPq and FAPESB, which gathers together around 200 researchers from 13 Brazilian and 35 foreign institutions.
I am the Book Review Editor of the journal Science & Education. I coordinate the science popularization initiative Cafe Scientifique Salvador (http://cafecientificossa.blogspot.com) and write in the Blog Darwinianas (https://darwinianas.com/), linked to IN-TREE.
I am Vice-President of the Brazilian Association for History and Philosophy of Biology (ABFHIB).
My lab is linked to a virtual community of practice (ComPratica) and a collaborative research group involving primary and high school teachers, undergraduate and graduate students, preservice teachers, and researchers.
I receive a grant for productivity in research level 1B from the Brazilian National Research Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).
Main research interests: Science Education Research, Philosophy of Biology, History of Biology, Evolutionary Biology and Animal Behaviour.
The complete CV can be found at http://lattes.cnpq.br/8022297490892415
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biological information systems. Here we summarize our view about Peirce’s concept of meaningful information process as a triadic-dependent relation of mediation connecting Sign, Object and Interpretant, in the context of semiotic systems, systems that produce, communicate, receive, compute, and interpret signs of different kinds.
Key-Words: Information. Peirce. Semiosis. Semiotic systems."
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In this paper, we investigate some theoretical grounds for bridging the gap between an organism-centered biology and the chemical basis of biological explanation, as expressed in the prevailing molecular perspective in biological research. First,
we present a brief survey of the role of the organism concept in biological thought. We advance the claim that emergentism (with its fundamental tenets: ontological physicalism, qualitative novelty, property emergence, theory of levels, irreducibility of the emergents, and downward causation) can provide a metaphysical basis for a coherent sort of organicism. Downward causation (DC) is the key notion in emergentist philosophy, as shown by the tension between the aspects of dependence and nonreducibility in the concept of supervenience, preferred by many philosophers to emergence as a basis for nonreductive physicalism. As supervenience physicalism does not lead arguably, to a stable nonreductive physicalist account, we maintain that a philosophical alternative worthy of investigation is that of a combination of supervenience and property emergence in the formulation of such a stance. Taking as a starting-point O'Connor's definition of an emergent property, we discuss how a particular interpretation of downward causation (medium DC), inspired by Aristotelian causal modes, results in an explanation of property emergence compatible with both physicalism and non-reductionism. In this account of emergence, one may claim that biology, as a science of living organization, is and remains a science of the organism, even if completely explained by the laws of chemistry. We conclude the paper with a new definition of an emergent property.
Key words:
Organicism; levels; reduction; Aristotle; causality.
Keywords:
gene; information; process philosophy; semiosis; biosemiotics; C.S.Peirce.
Chapter 1. ‘Genes’ and ‘information’ as conceptual
problems;
Chapter 2. The problem of the gene;
Chapter 3. Biosemiotics and information talk in biology;
Chapter 4. Information and semiosis in Peirce’s science
of signs;
Chapter 5. Some other ideas about information
Chapter 6. A semiotic analysis of genes and genetic
information;
Chapter 7. Emergence of semiosis: A general model;
Chapter 8. Levels of semiosis in the genetic information
system;
Chapter 9. Genes, information, and semiosis.