Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology

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Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work. ContentsAcknowledgements vii Contributors ix Foreword xi Part I. Introduction1. A Manifesto for a Processual Philosophy of Biology (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement 324186, on which JD was the Principal Investigator and DJN was a Research Fellow. We are very grateful to the ERC for its support. More specifically, the majority of the papers herein originated at the workshop "Process Philosophy of Biology", the first major event funded by the grant, held in Exeter in November 2014. We would like to thank all the participants in that event, which marked the first step on the road to this publication.We must also thank Stephan Guttinger and Anne Sophie Meincke, the other two Research Fellows on the project, who have been essential contributors to each stage of the development of the project, both intellectually and practically. Additionally, anyone who has run a large research project will know how important it is to have a capable administrator, and we have been very fortunate to have Chee Wong in that capacity. We are most grateful for her tireless contributions to the project's management.Finally, we have had the privilege of inviting a very substantial number of colleagues from around the world to workshops, colloquia, and other kinds of collaborative research visits. We will not try to name them, if only because we would surely leave someone out, but we are grateful to them all. More even than is obvious from the many authors who have contributed to the volume, this is an output that has been influenced by an extended international and interdisciplinary academic community.