Publications

OUTONOMY

Books

Barandiaran, X.E., Etxeberria, A. (Eds.) (2025) Outonomy: fleshing out autonomy beyond the individual. Springer.

Barandiaran, X. E., Calleja-López, A., Monterde, A., & Romero, C. (2024). Decidim, a Technopolitical Network for Participatory Democracy. Philosophy, Practice and Autonomy of a Collective Platform in the age of Digital Intelligence. Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031507830 [SPI Q1] [OA][ACK-new][G3]

Bich, L. (2024). Biological Organization, Cambridge University Press. [SPI Q1] [OA]. [ACK-new][G1-4]

Etxeberria, Arantza, Nuño de la Rosa, Laura Eds. (2024) Los cuerpos olvidados de las mujeres: Filosofía, Biología y Feminismo. En preparación.

Journal articles

Aguilera, M Moosavi, AS & Shimazaki, H (2021). A unifying framework for mean-field theories of asymmetric kinetic Ising systems. Nature Communications, 12:1197. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-20890-5  [Q1] [G1]

Aguilera, M, Millidge, B, Tschantz, A, & Buckley, CL (2022). How particular is the physics of the Free Energy Principle?. Physics of Life Reviews. DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2021.11.001. [Q1] [G3] [ACK-old]

Aguilera, M & Di Paolo, EA (2021). Critical integration in neural and cognitive systems: Beyond power-law scaling as the hallmark of soft-assembly. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 123. DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.01.009. [Q1] [G1]  [ACK-old]

Amilburu, A., Moreno, Á. & Ruiz-Mirazo, K. (2021): Definitions of life as epistemic tools that reflect and foster the advance of biological knowledge. Synthese 198, 10565–10585 (2021). DOI: 10.1007/s11229-020-02736-7  (as the paper was published online-first on June 9 2020, the project code was not available yet) [Q1] [G1]

Arnellos, A. and Moreno, A. (2021). Visual Perception and the Emergence of Minimal Representation. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. Doi:  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.660807 [Q2][G2] [OA]

Barandiaran, X. E., Calleja-López, A., & Cozzo, E. (2020). Defining Collective Identities in Technopolitical Interaction Networks. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01549 [Q2, G3][OA]

Bechtel, W. and Bich, L. (2021). Grounding cognition: heterarchical control mechanisms in biology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376 (1820), 20190751. Doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0751. [Q1][G1,G2][OA][ACK-old]

Bechtel, W. and Bich, L. (2023a). Using neurons to maintain autonomy: Learning from C. elegans. BioSystems, 232: 105017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105017 [Q1][G1, G2][OA][ACK-new]

Bechtel, W. and  Bich, L (2024). Eating and Cognition in Two Animals without Neurons: Sponges and Trichoplax, Biological Theory (accepted for publication: in production) [Q1][G1, G2][OA][ACK-new]

Bich, L. (2024a). Integrating multicellular systems: Physiological control and degrees of biological individuality. Acta Biotheoretica, 72(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10441-023-09476-4. [Q1][G1,G2][OA][ACK-new]

Bich, L. (2024b). Organisational teleology 2.0: grounding biological purposiveness in regulatory control, Ratio, Doi: 10.1111/RATI.12405.(accepted for publication: in production) [Q1][G1][OA][ACK-new]

Bich, L. and Bechtel, W. (2021). Mechanism, autonomy and biological explanation. Biology & Philosophy. doi: 10.1007/s10539-021-09829-8. [Q1][G1, G3] [OA][ACK-old]

Bich, L. and Bechtel, W. (2022a). Control Mechanisms: Explaining the Integration and Versatility of Biological Organisms. Adaptive Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123221074429 [Q1][G1][OA][ACK-old]

Bich, L. and Bechtel, W. (2022b). Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 93, 96-106. Doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.03.005 [Q1][G1][OA][ACK-old]

Escribano, M. (2021). ‘Chemistry and dynamics in the thought of G.W. Leibniz II’. Foundations of Chemistry 23, pp. 3–16. 2021. DOI: 10.1007/s10698-020-09375-3. JCR (2020): [Q2][G1,G3,G4]. [ACK-old]

Escribano, M.(2021). ‘Chemistry and dynamics in the thought of G.W. Leibniz I’. Foundations of Chemistry 23, pp. 137–153. 2021. DOI: 10.1007/s10698-020-09382-4. JCR (2020): [Q2][G1,G3,G4]. [ACK-old]

Escribano, M.(2021). ‘Convergence between chemistry and biology in the Leibnizian concept of organism’. HYLE: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry 27(1), pp. 5 – 23. 2021. SJR (2020): [Q2][G1,G3,G4]. [ACK-old]

Etxeberria, Arantza; Cortés-García, David (2022) What is Special about Natural Drift as an Organism-Centered View of Evolution, Constructivist Foundations 18 (1), 107-109 [G1, G2, G3] [Q2] [ACK-new] 

Etxeberria, Arantza. (2024). Relacionalidad frente al biologicismo: Más allá de la biología determinista y esencialista. Revista Iberoamericana De Ciencia, Tecnología Y Sociedad – CTS, 19(55), 145–161. https://doi.org/10.52712/issn.1850-0013-527 [G1, G2, G3] [ACK-old] [OA]

Etxeberria, Arantza y Cortés-García, David (2024) Embarazo en flosofía de la biología: un enfoque organísmico relacional. Ludus Vitalis 30(1), 7-28. [G1, G2] [ACK-old] [OA]

Etxeberria, Arantza, Cortés-García, David, Torres Aldave, Mikel (2023) Organisms, life relations, and evolution: inter-dependencies after Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid, ArtefaCToS. Revista de estudios sobre la ciencia y la tecnología. 12(1), 179-204. https://doi.org/10.14201/art2023121179204 [G2] [ACK-old] [OA]

Etxeberria, Arantza (2023) Jacob’s understanding of Reproduction: Challenges from an Organismic Collaborative Framework, HOPOS: Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 13 (2), 535-553. https://doi.org/10.1086/726256 [Q2] [G2] [ACK-old]

 Cortés-García, D., Etxeberria, Arantza & Nuño de la Rosa, L. (2024, forthcoming). The evolution of reproductive characters: an organismal relational approach. Biology and Philosophy, accepted with minor changes. [Q1] [G2] [ACK-new]

Ferreira Ruiz, M J. & Umerez, Jon (2021) Interactionism, Post-interactionism, and Causal Complexity: Lessons from the Philosophy of Causation. Frontiers in Psychology. Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 12: 590533. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.590533. [Q2] [G1] [ACK-old]

Gambarotto, A.  and Nahas, A.(2023) Nature and Agency: Towards a Post-Kantian Naturalism, Topoi, 42, 767-780. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-023-09882-w (accepted 3 january 2023) [Q1] [G2][ACK-old]

Gambarotto, A.  (2023)Teleology and mechanism: a dialectical approach. Synthese 201, 155. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04137-y (submitted september 2022 accepted march 20239 [Q1] [G1][ACK-old]

García E. (2024b, forthcoming). Therapeutic Atmospheres: The aesthetics of therapeutic spaces. Lebenswelt: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience. [Q4][G3][OA][ACK-new]

García E., Barandiaran, X.E. (2024, forthcoming). Varieties of normativity in mental health. An enactive account. Synthese. [Q1][G 1,2][OA][ACK-new]

Lozada, M., D’Adamo, P., Chaoul, A. & García, E. (2024 forthcoming). Frontiers Research Topic “Towards an enactive approach to health”. Frontiers S.A.  [Editorial, Collection] [Q2] [G 1,2,3][OA][ACK-new]

García, E. (2023a). Affectivity in mental disorders: an enactive-simondonian approach. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 1-28. [Q1] [G1][OA][ACK-old]

García, E. (2023b). Affective atmospheres and the enactive-ecological framework. Philosophical Psychology, 1-26. [Q1] [G3][no-OA][ACK-old]

García, E., & Arandia, I. R. (2022). Enactive and simondonian reflections on mental disorders. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 938105. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.938105. [Q2] [G 2,3] [OA][ACK-old]

García, E. (2021). Participatory Sense-Making in Therapeutic Interventions. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, DOI: 10.1177/00221678211000210 [Q1] [G2][no-OA][ACK-old]

García, E., Di Paolo, E. A., & De Jaegher, H. (2021). Embodiment in online psychotherapy: A qualitative study. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. DOI: 10.1111/papt.12359. [Q1] [G2][OA][ACK-old]

Huang, L. T., Bich, L., & Bechtel, W. (2021). Model Organisms for Studying Decision-Making: a Phylogenetically Expanded Perspective. Philosophy of Science, 715443. Doi: 10.1086/715443 [Q1] [G1, G3][ACK-old]

Lauber, N., Flamm, C. & Ruiz-Mirazo, K. (2021): ‘Minimal metabolism’: a key concept to investigate the origins and nature of biological systems. BioEssays.43: 2100103 DOI: 10.1002/bies.202100103 [OA] [Q1] [G1] [ACK-old]

Lauber, N., Tichacek, O., Bose, R., Flamm, C., Leuzzi, L., Tang, T-Y D., Ruiz-Mirazo, K. & De Martino, D. (2023a): Statistical mechanics of biomolecular condensates via cavity methods. iScience  26: 106300 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106300) [OA] [Q1] [G1] [ACK-old]

Lauber, N., Tichacek, O., Narayanankutty, K. De Martino, D. & Ruiz-Mirazo, K. (2023b): Collective catalysis under spatial constraints: phase separation and size-scaling effects on mass action kinetics. Physical Reviews E 108: 044410. (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.108.044410).  [OA] [Q1] [G1] [ACK-old]

Martínez Quintero A., and De Jaegher H. (2020). Pregnant Agencies: Movement and Participation in Maternal–Fetal Interactions. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:1977. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01977. [Q2][G2][OA]

Menatti, L., Bich, L., & Saborido, C. (2022). Health and environment from adaptation to adaptivity: a situated relational account. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 44(3), 38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-022-00515-w [Q1][G1-4][OA][ACK-old]

Menatti, L., Waterton, E., Egoz, S., Whittington, V., Wylie, J., De Almeida, C. and Olwig, K., (2022). The Meanings of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Environment and Justice. Landscape Research, 47(1), pp.125-136. [Collective commentary Q1] [G4]

Menatti, L., & Ranzini, M. (2023). Has social distancing increased our relationships and sense of being connected? Results from a study conducted in Italy, France and Spain during the first COVID-19 lockdown. Psychology Hub, 40(1), 37–48. https://doi.org/10.13133/2724-2943/17780. [G2][OA][ACK-old]

Militello, G., Bich, L. & Moreno, A. (2021). Functional integration and individuality in prokaryotic collective organisations. Acta Biotheoretica, 69(3), 391-415. doi: 10.1007/s10441-020-09390-z [Q1][G1,G2][OA][ACK-old]

Nogal, N., Sanz-Sánchez, M., Vela-Gallego, S., Ruiz-Mirazo, K. & de la Escosura, A. (2023): The protometabolic nature of prebiotic chemistry. Chem Soc Revs. 52: 7359–7388. (https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CS00594A)  [OA] [Q1] [G2] [ACK-old] 

Nuño de la Rosa, L.; Pavlicev, M.; Etxeberria, A. (2021) Pregnant females as historical individuals: An insight from the philosophy of evo-devo, Frontiers in Psychology, 11:572106. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.572106 [Q2] [G1,G2] [ACK-old] 

Pérez-Verdugo, M., & Barandiaran, X. E. (2023). Personal Autonomy and (Digital) Technology: An Enactive Sensorimotor Framework. Philosophy & Technology, 36(4), 84. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-023-00683-y  [Q1] [G3.2] [OA] [ACK-new]

Santos, B. A., Gomes, R. M., Barandiaran, X. E., & Husbands, P. (2022). Active Role of Self-Sustained Neural Activity on Sensory Input Processing: A Minimal Theoretical Model. Neural Computation, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1162/neco_a_01471 [Q1, G2][Ack-old][no OA]

Rama, T. (2024a, forthcoming). Is a Cognitive Revolution in Theoretical Biology Underway? Foundations of Science. DOI: 10.1007/s10699-024-09950-3 [Q2] [G3] [Ack-new] [no OA]Rama, T. (2024b, forthcoming). The Explanatory Role of Umwelt in Evolutionary Theory: Introducing von Baer’s Reflections on Teleological Development. Biosemiotics. DOI: 10.1007/s12304-024-09569-8 [Q1] [G3] [ACK-new] [no OA]

Book chapters

Bechtel, W. and Bich, L. (2023b). Organisms need mechanisms and mechanisms need organisms. In J.R. Cordovil, G. Santos and D. Vecchi (eds.). New Mechanism. Explanation, Emergence and Reduction (pp. 85.108). New York: Springer. Doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-46917-6_5. (ISBN 978-3-031-46916-9).(accepted in 2022 )[SPI Q1][OA][ACK-old][G1]

Bich L. (2021) Autonomous Systems and the Place of Biology Among Sciences. Perspectives for an Epistemology of Complex Systems. In: Minati G. (ed) Multiplicity and Interdisciplinarity. Contemporary Systems Thinking. New York: Springer. ISBN: 978-3-030-71877-0. Doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-71877-0_4 [SPI Q1] [G1,G3] [ACK-old]

Bich, L. and Skillings, D. (2023). There are no intermediate stages: An organizational view on development. In M. Mossio (Ed.). Organization in Biology (p.241-262). New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38968-9_11  (accepted in 2022)[SPI Q1][OA][ACK-old][G1,3]

Cortés-García, David & Etxeberria Agiriano, Arantza (2023) Ontologies in evolutionary biology: the role of the organism in the two Syntheses, in: José Manuel Viejo and Maríano Sanjuán, Eds. Life and Mind – New directions in the Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences, Springer, pp.185-205. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30304-3_9  [SPI Q1] [G1,G2] [ACK-old] 

Etxeberria, A. (2020) Regulation, milieu, and norms: Georges Canguilhem’s individual organisms as relations, in: Pierre-Olivier Methot, Jonathan Sholl Eds. Vital Norms. Canguilhem’s The Normal and the Pathological in the Twenty-First Century, Hermann Ed., pp. 291-328.  ISBN: 979-1-0370-0557-1 [G2, G3] [ACK-old]

Etxeberria Agiriano, Arantza (2022) Evolucionabilidad, en Jorge Galindo y Maximiliano Martínez Eds. Conceptos de la biología evolutiva para las ciencias sociales y las humanidades, Mexico: UAM, pags. 215-221. [G1,G3][ACK-old]

Etxeberria, Arantza, Pérez Iglesias, JI (2021) Gizaberea, Eboluzioa, eta kooperazioa, in X. Eizagirre Gezalaga eta I. Zabaleta Gorrotxategi Eds. Pentsamendu bat gure munduari – Joxe Azurmendi Kongresua, Jakin Argitaletxea (Erreferentzia: 978-84-949759-2-9) 

Ferreira Ruiz, Mª & Umerez, Jon (2022) Causación descendente. In Jorge Galindo & Maximiliano Martínez (eds.) Diccionario de biología evolutiva para las ciencias sociales y las humanidades, pp.: 66-72. Mexico: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM). ISBN: 978-607-28-2619-9 [G2] [ACK-old]

Ferreira Ruiz, Mª & Umerez, Jon (2022) Sistemas complejos. In Jorge Galindo & Maximiliano Martínez (eds.) Diccionario de biología evolutiva para las ciencias sociales y las humanidades, pp.: 546-552.  Mexico: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM). ISBN: 978-607-28-2619-9 [G2] [ACK-old]

Monterde-Fuertes, A. (submitted: 1st June 2023, accepted: 8th February 2024). The Limits of Reductionism in the Scientific Controversies of Pain. Cuevas-Badallo, A., Martin-Villuendas, M., Gafaell, J. Life and Mind: Theoretical and Applied Issues in Contemporary Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences. Springer Nature.[SP IQ1][G1,2][ACK-New]

 Ruiz-Mirazo, K. & Moreno, A. (2024): On the evolutionary development of biological organisation from complex prebiotic chemistry. In: M. Mossio (Ed.) Organization in Biology. History, Philosophy and Theory on the Life Sciences Series — Springer (pp. 187-218). ISBN: 978-3-031-38967-2  [OA] [Q1] [G2, G4] [ACK-old] Umerez, J. (2021) Autonomous Hierarchies.- Pattee’s approach to function and control as time-dependent constraints. In D. S. Brooks, J. DiFrisco & W. C. Wimsatt (eds.) Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences, 279-295. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.ISBN: 9780262045339 [Q1 (SPI ranking)] [G2] [ACK-old]