Research notes for the ethic : privately see also ~/work/ethic/._/13/tmp/ : for pre-fetched copies of texts referred to below naturalism • Price and Jackson, 1997 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4106960 : Naturalism and the fate of the M-worlds. - my plan to ground the ethic by reaching across the boundary between ethics and science, seemingly incommensurable fields, might benefit from the method that Jackson describes for such a purpose: show the core structure of the former *also* to be core to the latter : re `my plan to ground the ethic` see `^*\| consistency with theoretic telicity$` @ ../12_teleo_object_subject/00.notes.brec : ad `the method that Jackson describes` : ibid. p. 282 - already my schemata of the theoretic formulae are structural and make use of variables, more-or-less of the sort that Jackson mentions : re `schemata` see e.g. `schema of the Taylor-Wright formula` @ ../12_teleo_object_subject/24.brec - the field-dependent variables in the schemata itself (my neutral bridge across fields) I could free completely, then bind them to ethical/practical terms on the one side, and scientific/theoretic terms on the other / Gambarotto and Nahas, 2023 : see https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-023-09882-w : Nature and agency: towards a post‑Kantian naturalism. : join @ `^^practical and theoretic teleology`i • Nahas and Sachs, 2023 : see https://philarchive.org/rec/SACWAS : (by preprint) What’s at stake in the debate over naturalizing teleology §3.2 The naturalism debates. practical and theoretic teleology / relations between the practical and theoretic uses of teleology • Schlosser, 1998 : join @ `^^aetiologic$`i @ `^^theoretic teleology$`i - Schlosser’s topic here is ostensibly general in scope, comprising not only function in organisms and artifacts, but also intention / yet he merely touches on the latter two, treating only function in depth / Gambarotto and Nahas, 2023 : join @ `^^naturalism$`i - here their approach — ‘that living beings [are] intrinsically purposive agents’ wherein ‘the normative features of… reason… find their natural ground’ — seems itself to lack a natural ground, making it appear wide open to naturalist skepticism / or am I to take seriously that one can simply redefine naturalism as one pleases? neo-Aristotelian / a mode of relating practical and theoretic uses of teleology / Odenbaugh, 2017 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/26166385 : Nothing in ethics makes sense except in the light of evolution? Natural goodness, normativity, and naturalism. / criticism of the neo-Aristotelian mode - Austin, 2017 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/48726137 : Aristotelian essentialism: essence in the age of evolution. - Austin, 2018 : see http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351240857 : Essence in the age of evolution: a new theory of natural kinds. - Moosavi, 2022 : see https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-20223474 : Neo-Aristotelian naturalism as ethical naturalism. teleosemantic / a mode of relating practical and theoretic uses of teleology to the feedback mechanism of natural selection : see https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-023-04137-y : Gambarotto, 2023. Teleology and mechanism: a dialectical approach. ‘the feedback mechanism of natural selection, [according to] teleosemantics…, provides a naturalistic foundation for the very existence of intentional agents’ (p. 154) ‘[an] etiological approach… teleosemantics… attempts to provide an objective account of how rational, intentional agents come about’ (p. 155) : join @ `^^naturally selective$`i @ `^^aetiologic$`i @ `^^theoretic teleology$`i replication - Wilkins and Bourrat, 2022 : see https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/replication/ : Replication. structure of nature, relation to thought • Hofweber, 2023 : see https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-ontology/#FormThouStruRealL4MeetO3 : Logic and ontology §4.6 The form of thought and the structure of reality. theoretic teleology / telicity naturalized, accounted for in theory - Midgley, 2011 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/23014797 : Why the idea of purpose won’t go away. • Allen and Neal, 2020 : see https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/teleology-biology/ : Teleological notions in biology. - prevailing accounts are Wright’s aetiologic analysis (§3 ¶2), systems-theoretic or organizational accounts (§4.1 ¶3), and those based directly on natural selection (§4.2) • Gambarotto, 2023 : see https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-023-04137-y : (by open access) Teleology and mechanism: a dialectical approach. / a good overview of the competing accounts, if nothing else - Glick, 2023 : see https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-023-04251-x : (by open access) The principle of least action and teleological explanation in physics. - McShea, 2023 : see https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-023-04164-9 : (by open access) Evolutionary trends and goal directedness. aetiologic / an extrinsic account of telicity in theory - Taylor, 1964 : see @ non-fractal workstation:bookshelf : The explanation of behaviour. - I found no formula, though Wright says Taylor attempted one. He came the closest in the first chapter or two. : re `Wright says Taylor attempted one` see `^*• Wright, 1972$` / Maybe Wright was referring to another of Taylor’s texts. • Wright, 1972 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/186722 : Explanation and teleology. / formula on page 211 : cf. @ `^^aetiologic$`i @ `^^theoretic teleology$`i @ research.notes_boneyard.brec / *aetiologic analysis* Wright calls his account - Wright’s topic here is behaviour, not function / Wright presents his account as a correction of Taylor’s • Wright, 1973 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/2183766 : Functions. / formula on page 161 : cf. @ `^^aetiologic$`i @ `^^theoretic teleology$`i @ research.notes_boneyard.brec - Wright’s topic here is general in scope, comprising artifacts as well as organisms - Boorse, 1976 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/2184255 : Wright on functions. - Bigelow and Pargetter, 1987 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/2027157 : Functions. - Millikan, 1989 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/187875 : In defense of proper functions. / formula on page 288 - Griffiths 1993 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/688013 : Functional analysis and proper functions. / formula on page 415 - Walsh, 1996 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/687924 : Fitness and function. - Walsh and Ariew, 1996 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/40231963 : A taxonomy of functions. • Schlosser, 1998 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/20118085 : Self-re-production and functionality: a systems-theoretical approach to teleological explanation. : join @ `^^practical and theoretic teleology`i - Dussault and Bouchard, 2017 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/26166389 : A persistence enhancing propensity account of ecological function to explain ecosystem evolution. naturally selective / a type of aetiologic account ' The historical and to this day main contender [of the ‘function debate’] is the evolutionary approach … an etiological account that qualifies functions as evolved adaptations produced by the feedback mechanism of natural selection : see https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-023-04137-y : Gambarotto, 2023. Teleology and mechanism: a dialectical approach. - Neander, 1991 : see http://reluk.ca/project/ethics/tmp/ : The teleological notion of ‘function’. - Neander, 1991 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/187457 : Functions as selected effects: the conceptual analyst's defense. / formula on page 74 - Davies, 1994 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/2216064 : Troubles for direct proper functions. - Godfrey-Smith, 1994 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/2216063 : A modern history theory of functions. / formula on page 359 - Garson, 2016 : see https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-32020-5 : A critical overview of biological functions. - Garson, 2017 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/26551842 : A generalized selected effects theory of function. / might be redundant with his earlier work, merely a response to his critics - Garson, 2019 : see https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/what-biological-functions-are-and-why-they-matter/2BBBC245ECCF8DAD41F5DE366FDBE558 : What biological functions are and why they matter. : see also https://www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/colombo-on-garson/ : (review) / might be redundant with his earlier work, merely a deeper dive into his theory - Lennox, 2019 : see https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/darwinism/#SelAdaTel : Darwinism §3.3 Selection, adaptation and teleology. + Christie, Brusse, Bourrat, Takacs and Griffiths, 2021 : see https://philpapers.org/archive/CHRABT-5.pdf : Are biological traits explained by their ‘selected effect’ functions? / formula on page 8 : see also https://philpapers.org/pub/89738/forthcoming : (acceptance) Australasian Philosophical Review - Donhauser, 2023 : see http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/21715/1/penult%20de-anon%205LessonsTeleologyEcology.docx : (by preprint) Five lessons from teleology-neutrality and metaphor in ecology: bottom-up and top-down all at once. teleosemantic / a type of aetiologic account [or merely a linguist’s application of that?] : re `linguist’s application` see `^*. Christie, Brusse.+2021$` : who mention (not far from the beginning, I think) such an application : see https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-023-04137-y : Gambarotto, 2023. Teleology and mechanism: a dialectical approach. ‘Etiological approaches… as in the case of teleosemantics’ (p. 154) ‘The etiological approach… of teleosemantics’ (p. 155) : join @ `^^practical and theoretic teleology`i - Papineau, 1984 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/187975 : Representation and explanation. - Shea, 2007 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/40041115 : Consumers need information: supplementing teleosemantics with an input condition. : see also https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40002174 : (critical replies) / formula on page 419 - Schulte and Neander, 2022 : see https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/content-teleological/ : Teleological theories of mental content - Papineau, 2023 : see https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-022-03966-7 : Swampman, teleosemantics and kind essences. (by open access) field theoretic / an extrinsic account of telicity in theory - inherently universal in scope ' goal-directed behavior is typified by two features: persistence and plasticity. Persistence is a measure of “how much more likely … an entity is to move toward the goal, rather than away from it… following a perturbation”… whereas plasticity is a measure of “the degree to which… an increase in starting distance from the goal increases trajectory length”… Goals… are defined in terms of features of an environmental field encompassing the goal-directed system … a field [being] “the set of external conditions that allows the entity to behave in a goal-directed manner, persistently and plastically.” : see https://philarchive.org/rec/SACWAS : Nahas and Sachs, 2023. What’s at stake in the debate over naturalizing teleology? An overlooked metatheoretical debate. • Babcock, 2023 : see https://philpapers.org/archive/BABTAF.pdf : (by preprint) Teleology and function in non-living nature. / while agreeing with the consensus that telicity and function differ, Babcock treats alike them under a single account - external upper-level fields make a thing persistent and plastic [if not reproductive], which are ‘hallmarks’ of telicity ' The presence of differential persistence and growth mean there are forms of natural selection [aside from reproductive] that act on inanimate, natural entities that are best captured by field theory … Certain inanimate entities have the single “end” of persistence and growth in relation to the field(s) within which they are immersed. When selective forces [fields] can act directly on an entity, from above, so to speak, they sculpt [it in] such a way that it possesses functions and goals. organizational / an intrinsic account of telicity in theory ' A key area of convergence has been on the idea that goal-directedness is expressed most fundamentally in the act of self-maintenance: the fact that some highly organized systems actively prevent their own dissolution and therefore can be said to have survival as their goal. : see https://philarchive.org/rec/SACWAS : Nahas and Sachs, 2023. What’s at stake in the debate over naturalizing teleology? An overlooked metatheoretical debate. / ‘Behavioral approaches, in contrast, conceptualize teleology from the outset as a specific kind of relationship between agents and their environments.’ - Mossio, Saborido and Moreno, 2009 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/25592036 : An organizational account of biological functions. - Artiga and Martínez, 2015 : see https://philarchive.org/rec/ARTTOA-2 : The organizational account of function is an etiological account of function. - Basl, 2017 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/26166386 : A trilemma for teleological individualism. - Holm, 2017 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/26166387 : Teleology and biocentrism. - Mossio and Bich, 2017 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/26166388 : What makes biological organisation teleological? - Sultan, Moczek and Walsh, 2021 : see https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bies.202100185 : Bridging the explanatory gaps: what can we learn from a biological agency perspective? - Corti, 2023 : see https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-023-04255-7 : (by open access) Organizational normativity and teleology: a critique. teleodynamics / a type of organizational account ' scholars have attempted to formalize the notion of self-production and self-maintenance in terms of circular causality [but] recent work has been able to clarify the precise … requirements for such a system [instead] in thermodynamic terms : see https://philarchive.org/rec/SACWAS : Nahas and Sachs, 2023. What’s at stake in the debate over naturalizing teleology? - Deacon, 2011 : see https://search.worldcat.org/title/601107605 : Incomplete nature: how mind emerged from matter. - Deacon, Srivastava and Bacigalupi, 2014 : see https://www.imrpress.com/journal/FBL/19/6/10.2741/4259 : The transition from constraint to regulation at the origin of life. *especially for sake of the minimal model they dub the ‘autogen’* - García-Valdecasas, 2022 : see https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-023-04137-y : On the naturalisation of teleology: self-organisation, autopoiesis and teleodynamics. / left off where he starts on teleodynamics (§4)