Published Article or Volume

Bechtel, William and Bich, Leonardo (2024) Eating and Cognition in Two Animals without Neurons: Sponges and Trichoplax. Biological Theory. ISSN 1555-5550

Bich, Leonardo (2024) Organisational teleology 2.0: Grounding biological purposiveness in regulatory control. Ratio.

Bich, Leonardo (2024) Integrating multicelular systems: Physiological control and degrees of biological individuality. Acta Biotheoretica, 72 (1). ISSN 0001-5342

Bechtel, William and Bich, Leonardo (2023) Organisms Need Mechanisms; Mechanisms Need Organisms. New Mechanism Explanation, Emergence and Reduction. pp. 85-108.

Bich, Leonardo and Skillings, Derek (2023) There are no intermediate stages: An organizational view on development. Organization in Biology. pp. 241-262.

Bechtel, William and Bich, Leonardo (2023) Using neurons to maintain autonomy: Learning from C. elegans. BioSystems, 232. ISSN 0303-2647

Bich, Leonardo and Bechtel, William (2022) Control Mechanisms: Explaining the Integration and Versatility of Biological Organisms. Adaptive Behavior.

Menatti, Laura and Bich, Leonardo and Saborido, Cristian (2022) Health and environment from adaptation to adaptivity: a situated relational account. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 44 (38).

Bich, Leonardo and Bechtel, William (2022) Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 93. pp. 96-106. ISSN 0039-3681

Bich, Leonardo and Bechtel, William (2021) Mechanism, autonomy and biological explanation. Biology & Philosophy, 36 (53). ISSN 1572-8404

Bich, Leonardo (2021) Autonomous Systems and the Place of Biology Among Sciences. Perspectives for an Epistemology of Complex Systems. Multiplicity and Interdisciplinarity. Essays in Honor of Eliano Pessa. pp. 41-57.

Bechtel, William and Bich, Leonardo (2021) Grounding cognition: heterarchical control mechanisms in biology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376 (1820). ISSN 0962-8436

Huang, Linus Ta-Lun and Bich, Leonardo and Bechtel, William (2021) Model Organisms for Studying Decision-Making: a Phylogenetically Expanded Perspective. Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1539-767X

Militello, Guglielmo and Bich, Leonardo and Moreno, Alvaro (2020) Functional Integration and Individuality in Prokaryotic Collective Organisations. Acta Biotheoretica. ISSN 0001-5342

Bich, Leonardo (2020) Interactive Models in Synthetic Biology: Exploring Biological and Cognitive Inter-Identities. Frontiers in Psychology, 11 (682). ISSN 1664-1078

Bich, Leonardo and Mossio, Matteo and Soto, Ana (2020) Glycemia Regulation: From Feedback Loops to Organizational Closure. Frontiers in Physiology, 11 (69). ISSN 1664-042X

Frick, Ramiro and Bich, Leonardo and Moreno, Alvaro (2019) An organisational approach to biological communication. Acta Biotheoretica. ISSN 0001-5342

Bich, Leonardo and Pradeu, Thomas and Moreau, Jean-François (2019) Understanding Multicellularity: The Functional Organization of the Intercellular Space. Frontiers in Physiology, 10. ISSN 1664-042X

Bich, Leonardo and Pradeu, Thomas and Moreau, Jean-Francois (2019) Understanding Multicellularity: The Functional Organization of the Intercellular Space. Frontiers in Physiology, 10 (11170). ISSN 1664-042X

Bich, Leonardo (2019) The problem of functional boundaries in prebiotic and inter-biological systems. Minati, G., Pessa E. and Abram, M. (eds) Systemics of Incompleteness and Quasi-Systems. pp. 295-302.

Bich, Leonardo and Frick, Ramiro (2018) Synthetic Modelling of Biological Communication: A Theoretical and Operational Framework for the Investigation of Minimal Life and Cognition. Complex Systems, 27 (3). pp. 267-287. ISSN 0891-2513

Bich, Leonardo (2018) Robustness and autonomy in biological systems: how regulatory mechanisms enable functional integration, complexity and minimal cognition through the action of second-order control constraints. Biological Robustness. Emerging Perspectives from within the Life Sciences. pp. 123-147.

Bich, Leonardo and Green, Sara (2016) Is defining life pointless? Operational definitions at the frontiers of Biology. Synthese. ISSN 1573-0964

Bich, Leonardo and Moreno, Alvaro (2015) The role of regulation in the origin and synthetic modelling of minimal cognition. BioSystems.

Bich, Leonardo and Mossio, Matteo and Ruiz-Mirazo, Kepa and Moreno, Alvaro (2015) Biological regulation: controlling the system from within. Biology & Philosophy.

Mossio, Matteo and Bich, Leonardo (2014) WHAT MAKES BIOLOGICAL ORGANISATION TELEOLOGICAL? Synthese. ISSN 1573-0964

Mossio, Matteo and Bich, Leonardo and Moreno, Alvaro (2013) Emergence, closure and inter-level causation in biological systems. Erkenntnis, 78 (2). pp. 153-178. ISSN 0165-0106

Bich, Leonardo (2012) Complex emergence and the living organization: an epistemological framework for biology. Synthese, 185 (2). pp. 215-232. ISSN 1573-0964