Entangled Life Organism and Environment in the Biological and Social

This volume explores the interactions between organisms and their environments and how this “entanglement” is a fundamental aspect of all life. It brings together the work and ideas of historians, philosophers, biologists, and social scientists, uniting a

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Gillian Barker Eric Desjardins Trevor Pearce Editors

Entangled Life Organism and Environment in the Biological and Social Sciences

Entangled Life

History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences Volume 4 Editors: Charles T. Wolfe, Ghent University, Belgium Philippe Huneman, IHPST (CNRS/Universit´e Paris I Panth´eon-Sorbonne), France Thomas A.C. Reydon, Leibniz Universit¨at Hannover, Germany Editorial Board: Marshall Abrams (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Andre Ariew (Missouri) Minus van Baalen (UPMC, Paris) Domenico Bertoloni Meli (Indiana) Richard Burian (Virginia Tech) Pietro Corsi (EHESS, Paris) Franc¸ois Duchesneau (Universit´e de Montr´eal) John Dupr´e (Exeter) Paul Farber (Oregon State) Lisa Gannett (Saint Mary’s University, Halifax) Andy Gardner (Oxford) Paul Griffiths (Sydney) Jean Gayon (IHPST, Paris) Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute, London) Thomas Heams (INRA, AgroParisTech, Paris) James Lennox (Pittsburgh) Annick Lesne (CNRS, UPMC, Paris) Tim Lewens (Cambridge) Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh) Alexandre M´etraux (Archives Poincar´e, Nancy) Hans Metz (Leiden) Roberta Millstein (Davis) Staffan M¨uller-Wille (Exeter) Dominic Murphy (Sydney) Franc¸ois Munoz (Universit´e Montpellier 2) Stuart Newman (New York Medical College) Frederik Nijhout (Duke) Samir Okasha (Bristol) Susan Oyama (CUNY) Kevin Padian (Berkeley) David Queller (Washington University, St Louis) St´ephane Schmitt (SPHERE, CNRS, Paris) Phillip Sloan (Notre Dame) Jacqueline Sullivan (Western University, London, ON) Giuseppe Testa (IFOM-IEA, Milano) J. Scott Turner (Syracuse) Denis Walsh (Toronto) Marcel Weber (Geneva)

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Gillian Barker • Eric Desjardins • Trevor Pearce Editors

Entangled Life Organism and Environment in the Biological and Social Sciences

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Editors Gillian Barker Department of Philosophy Western University London, Ontario Canada

Eric Desjardins Department of Philosophy Western University London, Ontario Canada

Trevor Pearce Department of Philosophy University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, North Carolina USA

ISSN 2211-1948 ISSN 2211-1956 (electronic) ISBN 978-94-007-7066-9 ISBN 978-94-007-7067-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-7067-6 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013946646 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive