Trinity007 Type post Author Daniel Witt Date June 6, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent DesignPhilosophyScientific Reasoning Tagged , academia, animals, biological complexity, biology, biopsychism, chemistry, Communicative & Integrative Biology, Evolution and the Fate of Humankind, Evolution News, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Manuel DeLanda, Marco Masi, materialism, metaphysical vitalism, methodology, Michael Levin, min, nest-building, nurturing, Peter Corning, physical vitalism, physics, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, Platonism, protection, Richard Sternberg, synergy, teleonomy, Tufts University, University of Zurich, vital force, vitalism Peter Corning and the Taint of Vitalism Daniel Witt June 6, 2025 Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning 11 As the insightful work of Corning and others has shown, the vitalist/mechanist debate in biology is nowhere near over. If anything, it’s just getting started. Read More ›