Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: The Need for a New Biophilosophy -- Teleology and the Life Sciences: Between Limit Concept and Ontological Necessity -- The Experience of Environmental Phosphate Fluctuations by Cyanobacteria: An Essay on the Teleological Feature of Physiological Adaptation -- Beyond Systems Theoretical Explanations of an Organism's Becoming: A Process Philosophical Approach -- Process and Action: Whitehead's Ontological Units and Perceptuomotor Control Units -- Life in the Interstices: Systems Biology and Process Thought -- Quantum Biology: A Live Option -- The Effect of Mind upon Brain -- A Fourth Variable in Evolution -- No Need for Dualism in Evolutionary Theory. A Comment on John B. Cobb's "A Fourth Variable in Evolution" -- Response to Andrew Packard -- Erkki Haukioja to the Rescue? -- Evolution without Tears: A Third Way beyond Neo-Darwinism and Intelligent Design -- Covariance and Evolution -- Index.