Spyridon Koutroufinis

Dr. Spyridon Koutroufinis is a Senior Lecturer (Privatdozent) at the Institute for Philosophy, History of Literature, Science and Technology within Faculty I - Humanities and Educational Sciences at the Technical University of Berlin. His work bridges process philosophy and biophilosophy, focusing on organismic dynamics, teleology, and the limitations of mechanistic approaches in systems biology.

Research Interests:

• Process philosophy (Whitehead, Bergson, Aristotle)
• Biophilosophy and metaphysics of organisms
• Critique of genetic determinism and systems theory
• Teleological explanations in biology
• Ecological ethics and symbolic environments

Scientific Contributions:

• Co-author of 'Process-Philosophical Perspectives on Biology' (2023)
• Editor of 'Life and Process: Towards a New Biophilosophy' (2014)
• Key work on 'dynamical depth' as a measure for organismic complexity (2014)