Leonardo Bich

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Autonomy and Heterarchy: Organizing Control in Biological Organisms

Leonardo Bich , William Bechtel

Outonomy: Fleshing out the Concept of Autonomy Beyond the Individual, Springer Nature Switzerland, pp.23-32, 2026, SpringerBriefs in Philosophy, 978-3-032-05500-2. ⟨10.1007/978-3-032-05501-9_3⟩

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05359014v1
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Organisms Need Mechanisms; Mechanisms Need Organisms

William Bechtel , Leonardo Bich

João L. Cordovil; Gil Santos; Davide Vecchi. New Mechanism. Explanation, Emergence and Reduction, 35, Springer International Publishing, pp.85-108, 2024, History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-46917-6_5⟩

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-04337960v1
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There Are No Intermediate Stages: An Organizational View on Development

Leonardo Bich , Derek Skillings

Matteo Mossio. Organization in Biology, 33, Springer International Publishing, pp.241-262, 2024, History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 978-3-031-38967-2. ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-38968-9_11⟩

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-04280281v1
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Autonomous Systems and the Place of Biology Among Sciences. Perspectives for an Epistemology of Complex Systems

Leonardo Bich

Multiplicity and Interdisciplinarity (edited by G. Minati). New York: Springer., pp.41-57, 2021, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-71877-0_4⟩

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03311559v1
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The Problem of Functional Boundaries in Prebiotic and Inter-Biological Systems

Leonardo Bich

Gianfranco Minati; Marion R. Abram; Eliano Pessa. Systemics of Incompleteness and Quasi-Systems, Springer, pp.295-302, 2019, Contemporary Systems Thinking, 978-3-030-15277-2. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-15277-2_23⟩

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-02162003v1
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Robustness and Autonomy in Biological Systems: How Regulatory Mechanisms Enable Functional Integration, Complexity and Minimal Cognition Through the Action of Second-Order Control Constraints

Leonardo Bich

Biological Robustness. Emerging Perspectives from within the Life Sciences, pp.123-147, 2018

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-01976812v1
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Auto-organización y autopoiesis

Arantza Etxeberria , Leonardo Bich

Diccionario Interdisciplinar Austral, 2017

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-01625583v1
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La circularité biologique : concepts et modèles

Matteo Mossio , Leonardo Bich

Modéliser & simuler. Epistémologies et pratiques de la modélisation et de la simulation, tome 2, pp.137-170, 2014

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-01137508v1
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EMERGENT PROCESSES AS GENERATION OF DISCONTINUITIES

Leonardo Bich , Gianluca Bocchi

Methods, Models, Simulations And Approaches Towards A General Theory Of Change, WORLD SCIENTIFIC, pp.135-146, 2012, ⟨10.1142/9789814383332_0009⟩

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-04894872v1
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Order in the Nothing: Autopoiesis and the Organizational Characterization of the Living

Leonardo Bich , Luisa Damiano

Physics of Emergence and Organization, WORLD SCIENTIFIC, pp.339-369, 2008, ⟨10.1142/9789812779953_0015⟩

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-04892204v1
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Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change

Leonardo Bich , Laura Menatti

Biological Theory, 2025, ⟨10.1007/s13752-025-00510-x⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05314377v1
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Modelling the prebiotic origins of regulation and agency in evolving protocell ecologies

Ben Shirt-Ediss , Arián Ferrero-Fernández , Daniele de Martino , Leonardo Bich , Alvaro Moreno et al.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2025, 380 (1936), ⟨10.1098/rstb.2024.0287⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05294154v1
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Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists

William Bechtel , Leonardo Bich

Philosophy of Science, 2025, pp.1-22. ⟨10.1017/psa.2024.72⟩

Article dans une revue hal-04975356v1
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Eating and Cognition in Two Animals without Neurons: Sponges and Trichoplax

William Bechtel , Leonardo Bich

Biological Theory, 2024, ⟨10.1007/s13752-024-00464-6⟩

Article dans une revue hal-04613808v1
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Situating homeostasis in organisms: maintaining organization through time

William Bechtel , Leonardo Bich

The Journal of Physiology, 2024, ⟨10.1113/JP286883⟩

Article dans une revue hal-04730150v1
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Organisational teleology 2.0: Grounding biological purposiveness in regulatory control

Leonardo Bich Article dans une revue hal-04587178v1
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Integrating Multicellular Systems: Physiological Control and Degrees of Biological Individuality

Leonardo Bich

Acta Biotheoretica, 2023, 72 (1), pp.1. ⟨10.1007/s10441-023-09476-4⟩

Article dans une revue hal-04365654v1
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Using neurons to maintain autonomy: Learning from C. elegans

William Bechtel , Leonardo Bich

BioSystems, 2023, 232, pp.105017. ⟨10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105017⟩

Article dans une revue hal-04198619v1
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Health and environment from adaptation to adaptivity: a situated relational account

Laura Menatti , Leonardo Bich , Cristian Saborido

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2022, 44, ⟨10.1007/s40656-022-00515-w⟩

Article dans une revue hal-03753629v1
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Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms

Leonardo Bich , William Bechtel

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2022, 93, pp.96-106. ⟨10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.03.005⟩

Article dans une revue hal-03626673v1
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Control Mechanisms: Explaining the Integration and Versatility of Biological Organisms

Leonardo Bich , William Bechtel

Adaptive Behavior, 2022, ⟨10.1177/10597123221074429⟩

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Functional Integration and Individuality in Prokaryotic Collective Organisations

Guglielmo Militello , Leonardo Bich , Alvaro Moreno

Acta Biotheoretica, 2021, 69 (3), pp.391-415. ⟨10.1007/s10441-020-09390-z⟩

Article dans une revue hal-03909292v1
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Grounding cognition: heterarchical control mechanisms in biology

William Bechtel , Leonardo Bich

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021, 376 (1820), pp.20190751. ⟨10.1098/rstb.2019.0751⟩

Article dans une revue hal-03120007v1
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Model Organisms for Studying Decision-Making: a Phylogenetically Expanded Perspective

Linus Ta-Lun Huang , Leonardo Bich , William Bechtel

Philosophy of Science, In press, ⟨10.1086/715443⟩

Article dans une revue hal-03248988v1
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Mechanism, autonomy and biological explanation

Leonardo Bich , William Bechtel

Biology and Philosophy, 2021, 36 (6), ⟨10.1007/s10539-021-09829-8⟩

Article dans une revue hal-03444581v1
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Glycemia Regulation: From Feedback Loops to Organizational Closure

Leonardo Bich , Matteo Mossio , Ana Soto

Frontiers in Physiology, 2020, 11, ⟨10.3389/fphys.2020.00069⟩

Article dans une revue hal-02484008v1
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Functional Integration and Individuality in Prokaryotic Collective Organisations

Guglielmo Militello , Leonardo Bich , Alvaro Moreno Bergareche

Acta Biotheoretica, 2020, ⟨10.1007/s10441-020-09390-z⟩

Article dans une revue hal-02919083v1
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Interactive Models in Synthetic Biology: Exploring Biological and Cognitive Inter-Identities

Leonardo Bich

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020, ⟨10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00682⟩

Article dans une revue hal-02545217v1
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Understanding Multicellularity: The Functional Organization of the Intercellular Space

Leonardo Bich , Thomas Pradeu , Jean-François Moreau

Frontiers in Physiology, 2019, 10, ⟨10.3389/fphys.2019.01170⟩

Article dans une revue hal-02291142v1
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Understanding Multicellularity: The Functional Organization of the Intercellular Space

Thomas Pradeu , Leonardo Bich , Jean-Francois Moreau

Frontiers in Physiology, 2019, 10, ⟨10.3389/fphys.2019.01170⟩

Article dans une revue hal-02426558v1
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An Organisational Approach to Biological Communication

Ramiro Frick , Leonardo Bich , Alvaro Moreno

Acta Biotheoretica, 2019, ⟨10.1007/s10441-019-09342-2⟩

Article dans une revue hal-02005799v1
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Synthetic Modelling of Biological Communication: A Theoretical and Operational Framework for the Investigation of Minimal Life and Cognition

Leonardo Bich , Ramiro Frick

Complex Systems , 2018, 27 (3), pp.267-287. ⟨10.25088/complexsystems.27.3.267⟩

Article dans une revue hal-01971034v1
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Is defining life pointless? Operational definitions at the frontiers of biology

Leonardo Bich , Sara Green Article dans une revue hal-01510280v1
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The role of regulation in the origin and synthetic modelling of minimal cognition

Leonardo Bich , Alvaro Moreno

BioSystems, 2016, 148, pp.12-21. ⟨10.1016/j.biosystems.2015.08.002⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05308423v1
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Biological regulation: controlling the system from within

Leonardo Bich , Matteo Mossio , Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo , Alvaro Moreno

Biology and Philosophy, 2015, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10539-015-9497-8. ⟨10.1007/s10539-015-9497-8⟩

Article dans une revue hal-01185296v1
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What makes biological organisation teleological?

Matteo Mossio , Leonardo Bich

Synthese, 2014, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-014-0594-z. ⟨10.1007/s11229-014-0594-z⟩

Article dans une revue hal-01137522v1
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Emergence, Closure and Inter-level Causation in Biological Systems

Matteo Mossio , Leonardo Bich , Alvaro Moreno

Erkenntnis, 2013, 78 (2), pp.153-178. ⟨10.1007/s10670-013-9507-7⟩

Article dans une revue hal-01354366v1
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Complex emergence and the living organization: an epistemological framework for biology

Leonardo Bich

Synthese, 2012, 185 (2), pp.215-232. ⟨10.1007/s11229-010-9722-6⟩

Article dans une revue hal-04808802v1
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Life, Autonomy and Cognition: An Organizational Approach to the Definition of the Universal Properties of Life

Leonardo Bich , Luisa Damiano

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 2012, 42 (5), pp.389-397. ⟨10.1007/s11084-012-9300-7⟩

Article dans une revue hal-04808813v1
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Autopoiesis, Autonomy, and Organizational Biology: Critical Remarks on “Life After Ashby”

Leonardo Bich , Argyris Arnellos

Cybernetics and Human Knowing, 2012, 19 (4), pp.75-103

Article dans une revue hal-04808806v1
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Question 9: Theoretical and Artificial Construction of the Living: Redefining the Approach from an Autopoietic Point of View

Leonardo Bich , Luisa Damiano

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 2007, 37 (4-5), pp.459-464. ⟨10.1007/s11084-007-9082-5⟩

Article dans une revue hal-04892115v1