Abstract This article discusses Hans Jonas’ argument for teleology in living organisms, light of recently raised concerns over enactivism’s “Jonasian turn.” Drawing on textual resources rarely discussed contemporary enactivist literature philosophy, we reconstruct five core ideas his thinking: 1) That natural science’s rejection is methodological rather than ontological, and thus not a proof it...

The article reviews Althusser’s Philosophy of the Encounter, examining in turn the problem of the Epistemological Break and the idea of matérialisme aléatoire. It looks at Althusser’s critique of the concept of commodity fetishism and suggests a possible response. It goes on to situate the matérialisme aléatoire in the context of the history of atomism with particular reference to the work of B...

Whether fever represents a beneficial or harmful response to infection has been debated for hundreds of years. The issue is clouded by a common misunderstanding that fever is the reason an individual with infection feels ill: often once the elevated body temperature abates, the patient feels better. It is assumed therefore that reducing the fever would improve the patient’s condition and shorte...

In recent decades, several theories have claimed to explain the teleological causality of organisms as a function self-organising and self-producing processes. The most widely cited this sort are variations autopoiesis, originally introduced by Maturana Varela. More modifications autopoietic theory focused on system organisation, closure constraints autonomy account for organism teleology. This...