Lenny Moss

TL;DR: An anthropologically informed concept of skill that goes beyond old manual versus intellectual dichotomies and brings forth internal criteria of autonomy and authenticity can serve as a new bridge between categories of social justice, such as Sen and Nussbaum's basic human capabilities, and new cutting-edge work in the empirical human sciences and thereby provide Critical Theory with a renewed point of departure that is both norma... as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: It is argued that classic work on low-level mechanisms became taken up qualitatively as parts of the scaffolding for investigating higher level regulatory processes and that in light of new findings such as that of the regulatory significance of 'pleiomorphic ensembles' and 'intrinsically unstructured proteins' the explanatory limits of the mechanism image have already come into view.

TL;DR: The idea of progressive detachment was introduced and set forth as the most perspicuous conceptual resource for unifying and interpreting the overall findings from comparative genomics to date in this article.

TL;DR: Where Rolston responds to the apparent failure of molecular biology to make good on the desideratum of the classical gene by veering off into fanciful talk about “cybernetic genes,” Griffiths and Stotz lose themselves in the molecular fine print and forget to ask themselves why “genes” should be of any special interst anyway.

TL;DR: The study of the living will be uniquely burdened with the dilemma of whether to try to grab onto basic units or parts and work one’s way ‘up’ to the complexity of a whole living system, or to begin at some minimum level of intact living complexity.