Tobias Cheung is Professor for the History of Knowledge and Culture at the Institute of Cultural History and Theory of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Cheung is author of The Organization of the Living: The Role of Cuvierʼs, Leibnizʼs and Kantʼs Notions of Organismic Order in the History of Biology (2000), Charles Bonnetʼs System Theory and Philosophy of Organic Order (2005), Res vivens. Agent Models of Organic Order 1600-1800 (2008), Organisms. Agents Between Inner and Outer Worlds 1780-1860 (2014), and editor of Transitions and Borders between Animals, Humans and Machines 1600-1800 (2010).