Peter Punin

Higher-Order Cumulative Selection and Directionality in Evolution

The Shift from Teleology to Another Dimension of Intelligent Design

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Produktbeschreibung

At the outset, this work seeks to show that cumulative selection - according to Modern Synthesis and its naturalistic extensions the principal driver of evolutionary directionality - is not as "simple" as claimed by neo-Darwinist authors. To realize this, it suffices to remember that many essential factors intervening in a given cumulative selection process are in turn issued from cumulative selection and so on. So, hyper-complex higher-order cumulative selection networks are hidden behind apparently "simple" cumulative selection processes. Here the following question arises: in order for a considered cumulative selection process to merely operate, should we not presuppose that the hyper-complex higher-order cumulative selection network behind it must be adequately preconfigured? Independently of the classical teleology issue which concerns, simplifying, the need for evolution of pre-given goals, this work defends the thesis that evolutionary directionality indeed requires such apreconfiguration. Even if evolution might unfold in a "teleology-free" way, the need for Intelligent Design reappears at this more fundamental level to be called "active teleonomy."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 209g
• ISBN-13: 9786204954196
• ISBN-10: 6204954199
• Artikelnr.: 64186248

Autorenporträt

Peter Punin is a retired philosophy lecturer having taught in Lebanon (Holy Spirit University of Kaslik), and in France (IPECOM and ISTH, Paris). Specialized in the philosophy of science, his interests are mathematical Platonism, general systems theory, irreversibility, and biological evolution.