Introduction: Perspectives on Entangled Life

Abstract

Despite burgeoning interest in new and more complex accounts of the organism-environment dyad, biologists and philosophers of biology have paid little attention to the history of these ideas and to their broader deployment in the social sciences and in other disciplines outside biology. Even in biology and philosophy of biology, detailed conceptual models of the organism-environment relationship are still lacking. This volume is designed to fill these lacunae by providing the first multidisciplinary discussion of the topic of organism-environment interaction. It brings together scholars from history, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, medicine, and biology to discuss the common focus of their work: entangled life, or the complex interaction of organisms and environments.