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A Symbiotic View of Life: We Have Never Been Individuals by Gilbert, Scott F., Sapp, Jan, Tauber, Alfred I.

“…The notion of the “biological individual” is crucial to studies of genetics, immunology, evolution, development, anatomy, and physiology. Each of these…”
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Rethinking individuality: the dialectics of the holobiont by Gilbert, Scott F., Tauber, Alfred I.

“…Given immunity’s general role in the organism’s economy—both in terms of its internal environment as well as mediating its external relations—immune theory has…”
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Organization of the autoantibody repertoire in healthy newborns and adults revealed by system level informatics of antigen microarray data by Madi, Asaf, Hecht, Inbal, Bransburg-Zabary, Sharron, Merbl, Yifat, Pick, Adi, Zucker-Toledano, Merav, Quintana, Francisco J, Tauber, Alfred I, Cohen, Irun R, Ben-Jacob, Eshel

“…The immune system is essential to body defense and maintenance. Specific antibodies to foreign invaders function in body defense, and it has been suggested…”
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The Immune System and Its Ecology by Tauber, Alfred I.

“…In biology, the ‘ecological orientation’ rests on a commitment to examining systems, and the conceptual challenge of defining that system now employs…”
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Network theory analysis of antibody-antigen reactivity data: the immune trees at birth and adulthood by Madi, Asaf, Kenett, Dror Y, Bransburg-Zabary, Sharron, Merbl, Yifat, Quintana, Francisco J, Tauber, Alfred I, Cohen, Irun R, Ben-Jacob, Eshel

“…New antigen microarray technology enables parallel recording of antibody reactivities with hundreds of antigens. Such data affords system level analysis of the…”
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Reconceiving autoimmunity: An overview by Tauber, Alfred I.

“…Three interconnected positions are advocated: (1) although serving as a useful model, the immune self does not exist as such; (2) instead of a self/nonself…”
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A hypothesis: Establishing the microbiome through immune mimicry (comment on DOI 10.1002/bies.201600083) by Tauber, Alfred I.

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Holoimmunity Revisited by Swiatczak, Bartlomiej, Tauber, Alfred I.

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Metchnikoff and the phagocytosis theory by Tauber, Alfred I

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Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing by Tauber, Alfred I

“…In his graceful philosophical account, Alfred I. Tauber shows why Thoreau still seems so relevant today--more relevant in many respects than he seemed to his…”
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Immunity: How Elie Metchnikoff Changed the Course of Modern Medicine by Luba Vikhanski (review) by Tauber, Alfred I

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Immunity in Context: Science and Society in Dialogue by Tauber, Alfred I.

“…According to immunology's prevailing paradigm, immunity is based on self/nonself discrimination and thus requires a construction of identity. Two orientations…”
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Immunology's Theories of Cognition by Tauber, Alfred I.

“…Contemporary immunology has established its fundamental theory as a biological expression of personal identity, wherein the "immune self" is defended by the…”
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Immunology seen through the dark glass of autoimmunity: Warwick Anderson and Ian R. Mackay: Intolerant Bodies. A short history of autoimmunity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014, 264pp, $25.95 PB by Tauber, Alfred I.

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Freud’s social theory: Modernist and postmodernist revisions by Tauber, Alfred I.

“…Acknowledging the power of the id-drives, Freud held on to the authority of reason as the ego’s best tool to control instinctual desire. He thereby placed…”
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Philosophy as Self-Knowledge by Tauber, Alfred I.

“…An autobiographical account is offered of how the medical study of self (immunology) became a chapter in the philosophical study of human agency (from…”
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Seeking the foundations of cognition in bacteria: From Schrödinger's negative entropy to latent information by Ben Jacob, Eshel, Shapira, Yoash, Tauber, Alfred I.

“…We reexamine Schrödinger's reflections on the fundamental requirements for life in view of new observations about bacterial self-organization and the emerging…”
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Reframing developmental biology and building evolutionary theory's new synthesis by Tauber, Alfred I

“…Gilbert and Epel present a new approach to developmental biology: embryogenesis must be understood within the full context of the organism's environment…”
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Freud’s dreams of reason: the Kantian structure of psychoanalysis by Tauber, Alfred I.

“…Freud (and later commentators) have failed to explain how the origins of psychoanalytical theory began with a positivist investment without recognizing a dual…”
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Analyses of antigen dependency networks unveil immune system reorganization between birth and adulthood by Madi, Asaf, Kenett, Dror Y, Bransburg-Zabary, Sharron, Merbl, Yifat, Quintana, Francisco J, Boccaletti, Stefano, Tauber, Alfred I, Cohen, Irun R, Ben-Jacob, Eshel

“…Much effort has been devoted to assess the importance of nodes in complex biological networks (such as gene transcriptional regulatory networks, protein…”
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