Matteo Mossio is a philosopher of biology. He is chargé de recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and full member of the IHPST, in Paris, France. Matteo Mossio works mainly in the philosophy and theory of biological autonomy, and has focused on concepts as organization, agency, function, emergence, identity and heredity. He published numerous articles in international philosophical and scientific journals and, in 2015, he coauthored with Alvaro Moreno a full monograph on autonomy, which received substantial coverage in the literature. Matteo Mossio teaches in the Philosophy Program of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne.

• Part 1: Historical and Conceptual Foundations.- ‘Organization’: Its Conceptual History, Definition and Relationship to Other Fundamental Biological Concepts.- Varieties of Organicism – A Metacritique?.- Organization as Presupposition? On the Epistemological Implications in the Attitudinal Stance.- ‘Dogmatic’ vs ‘Legitimate’ Organicism: Organization as Explanans and Explanandum in Biology.- Does Organicism Really Need Organization?.- Part2: Origins of Life.- A Structuralist Revival for Studies on the Origins of Life and Developmental Evolution.- On the Evolutionary Development of Biological Organization from Complex Prebiotic Chemistry.- Development.- An Organizational View on Development, with a Focus on Life Cycles.- Modelling Mammary Organogenesis from Biological First Principles: Cells and Organization of Constraints.- Part 4: Evolution.- Extended Heredity and the Return of Organizational Thinking in Evolutionary Biology.- Collaboration and the Evolution of Biological Complexity: AnOrganizational Perspective.- Organisms: Between a Kantian Approach and a Liberal Approach.- Part 5: Ecology.- Individuating Ecosystems by Ascribing Functions to their Parts.- Ecological Functions and Environmental Ethics.- Part 6: Theoretical Biology.- Studying Functional Organization with Systems Theory.- Organizational Principles of Autonomy.- On Taking an Organizational Approach to Cognition.- Biological Organization at the Crossroads between Conservation and Innovation.