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In this book, the physical singularity of life phenomena has been analyzed by means of a permanent “constructive tension” with respect to the driving concepts and theories of the inert. In this chapter, we explicitly outline some key conceptual analogies, transferals of methodologies and of theoretical instruments between physics and biology, which have been at the core of our approach. By this, we stress significant differences and sometimes logical dualities used or to be further used to make biological phenomenalities intelligible. Our purpose in this chapter is to clarify how we applied, or at least how we tried to apply, a scientific method which has been at the core of the history of physics: the constructive objectivization of phenomena.
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Longo, G., Montévil, M. (2014). A Philosophical Survey on How We Moved from Physics to Biology. In: Perspectives on Organisms. Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35938-5_10
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