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dc.contributor.authorVecchi, Davide
dc.contributor.authorMiquel, Paul Antoine
dc.contributor.authorHernández, Isaac
dc.contributor.funderFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal)
dc.contributor.funderFondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico, FONDECYT REGULAR (Chile)
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-24T09:31:22Z
dc.date.available2026-02-24T09:31:22Z
dc.date.issued2018-09-04
dc.descriptionThis is the Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Springer in "Acta Biotheorica 67, 2019", available online: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10441-018-9339-6
dc.descriptionEste es el manuscrito aceptado de un artículo publicado por Springer en " Acta Biotheorica 67, 2019", disponible en línea: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10441-018-9339-6
dc.description.abstractBiologists and philosophers often use the language of determination in order to describe the nature of developmental phenomena. Accounts in terms of determination have often been reductionist. One common idea is that DNA is supposed to play a special explanatory role in developmental explanations, namely, that DNA is a developmental determinant. In this article we try to make sense of determination claims in developmental biology. Adopting a manipulationist approach, we shall first argue that the notion of developmental determinant is causal. We suggest that two different theses concerning developmental determination can be articulated: determination of occurrence and structural determination. We shall argue that, while the first thesis is problematic, the second, opportunely qualified, is feasible. Finally, we shall argue that an analysis of biological causation in terms of determination cannot account for entangled dynamics. Characterising causal entanglement as a particular kind of interactive causation whereby difference-making causes ascribable to different levels of biological organisation influence a particular ontogenetic outcome, we shall, via two illustrative examples, diagnose some potential limits of a reductionist, molecular and intra-level understanding of biological causation.en
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dc.identifier.citationVecchi, D., Miquel, PA. & Hernández, I. From Biological Determination to Entangled Causation. Acta Biotheor 67, 19–46 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10441-018-9339-6
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10441-018-9339-6
dc.identifier.eissn1572-8358
dc.identifier.issn0001-5342
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/31916
dc.journal.issue1
dc.journal.titleActa Biotheorica
dc.journal.volume67
dc.language.isoen
dc.page.final46
dc.page.initial19
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.centerFacultad de Filosofía
dc.relation.departmentLógica, Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia
dc.relation.projectidinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT//SFRH/BPD/99879/2014/Towards an heteroplastic view of biology (Hacia una visión heteroplástica de la biología)
dc.relation.projectidinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT//BIODECON PTDC/IVC- HFC/1817/2014/¿Qué definición de biodiversidad para la conservación de la biodiversidad?
dc.relation.projectidinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement///FONDECYT Regular1171017/búsqueda por una teoría del cambio
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject72 Filosofía
dc.subject11 Lógica
dc.subject.keywordsdevelopmental causationen
dc.subject.keywordsdevelopmental determinanten
dc.subject.keywordsmanipulationismen
dc.subject.keywordsbiological determinationen
dc.subject.keywordscausal entanglementen
dc.subject.keywordsbiological reductionismen
dc.titleFrom Biological Determination to Entangled Causationen
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