Organismal Agency: A Persistent Riddle in the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

A Fábregas-Tejeda, J Baedke, GI Prieto… - The Riddle of …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
Organismal agency, together with cognate notions such as goal-directedness,
purposiveness, and teleology, has undergone a revival in recent decades and is one of the …

A critique of the agential stance in development and evolution

HD Potter, KJ Mitchell - The riddle of organismal agency, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
The claim that organisms are the agents of their own embryonic development, actively
directing their own ontogenetic trajectories towards adaptive outcomes, is central to an …