Given one conception of biological individuality (evolutionary, physiological, etc.), can a
holobiont–that is the host+ its symbiotic (mutualistic, commensalist and parasitic) …

Symbiosis plays a fundamental role in contemporary biology, as well as in recent thinking in
philosophy of biology. The discovery of the importance and universality of symbiotic …

Biological individuality is a notoriously thorny topic for biologists and philosophers of
biology. In this paper we argue that biological individuality presents multiple, interconnected …

Immunology is central to contemporary biology and medicine, but it also provides novel
philosophical insights. Its most significant contribution to philosophy concerns the …

The theory of evolution by natural selection is, perhaps, the crowning intellectual
achievement of the biological sciences. There is considerable debate, though, about which …

This paper considers questions about continuity and discontinuity between life and mind. It
begins by examining such questions from the perspective of the free energy principle (FEP) …

According to a shared functionalist view in philosophy of mind, a cognitive system, and
cognitive function thereof, is based on the components of the organism it is realized by …

Abstract Bourrat and Griffiths (Hist Philos Life Sci 40 (2): 33, 2018) have recently argued that
most of the evidence presented by holobiont defenders to support the thesis that holobionts …

It has become increasingly clear that there is a vast array of microorganisms on and in the
human body, known collectively as the human microbiome. Our microbiomes are …

Contemporary biological research has suggested that some host–microbiome multispecies
systems (referred to as “holobionts”) can in certain circumstances evolve as unique …