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A key challenge in conceptualizing ecological complexity is to allow simultaneously for particularity, contingency, and structure, and for such structure to be internally differentiated,dynamically tied to its context, and subject torestructuring. Because all organisms live insuch dynamic ecological circumstances, philosophy of ecology could become the leading site for addressing difficult conceptual questions concerning the situatedness or positionality of organisms –humans included – in their changing and intersecting worlds.
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Taylor, P., Haila, Y. Situatedness and Problematic Boundaries: Conceptualizing Life's Complex Ecological Context. Biology & Philosophy 16, 521–532 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011957913992
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