Extending the evolutionary synthesis isn’t enough
Rasmus Haukedal's new book calls for a truly dialectical biology: from autopoiesis to sympoiesis, from efficient causes to enablement, and an innovative take on plasticity, canalisation & habit.
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The dialectical underpinnings of multilevel selection
Evolution isn’t flat: new levels arise through conflict and then reshape the very dynamics that brought them into being
40 years after The Dialectical Biologist, Richard Lewontin’s legacy still challenges how we think about life
A new report revisits his intertwining of philosophy, biology, and Marxism—and how organisms are subjects of their own evolution
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Materiality isn’t a backdrop to cognition, but one of its central conditions
The upcoming workshop “Habits, Tools, and Material Environments” examines how cognition is socially distributed, ecologically embedded, and enacted through material engagement
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Very nice upcoming workshop at the Center for Philosophical Psychology (University of Antwerp) on how radical embodiment unfolds in complex, “wild” real-world environments.
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Marx as a philosophical biologist?
Chris Shambaugh on young Marx's account of organismal agency, its relation to human life to the critique of capitalism.
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Off year ISH workshop: Synthesizing Autonomy and New Mechanism in the Philosophy of Biology
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➡️New article out⬅️
@leonardobich.bsky.social and @lauramenatti.bsky.social
argue that health is not about balance or stability, but about adapting and transforming in response to changing circumstances — the capacity for adaptive change.
link.springer.com/journal/13752
CFP: Dialectics and Life (Marxism & Sciences, Issue 10)
Main topics: organism–environment coupling, critical 4E cognition, social metabolism, dialectical approaches to modeling.
Abstracts due 1 June 2026
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Enaction meets dialectics!
New paper out on how sensorimotor agency scales up to social normativity
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Introduction Dialectical thinking in biology has famously been put forward by the eponymous book of Levins and Lewontin (1985). Much of the book was dedicated to the interpenetration between organisms...
September 11th-13th 2026 University of Oslo (building and room number to be announced) A Novel “Third Way:” Synthesizing Autonomy and New Mechanism in the Philosophy of Biology 1) Workshop Coordinator...
The journal Marxism & Sciences has announced a special issue on Dialectics and Life, calling for abstracts that explore the crucial relation between dialectical thinking and the complex entanglement o...
This paper examines the relation between embodiment and sociality within the enactive approach, highlighting the continuity between biological autonomy and social normativity. The central claim is tha...
