Biología y filosofía: en torno al naturalismo de John Dewey
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Contrastescontrastes.v0i0.1183Abstract
RESUMEN
La principal influencia de la biología darwinista sobre la filosofía es el naturalismo. Tal ascendencia se refleja de manera muy clara en y a través de la obra de John Dewey, para quien la relación entre naturaleza y experiencia –o cultura–, fue siempre el problema preponderante de la filosofía. Desde un punto de vista historiográfico se sostiene que Dewey es el primer filósofo en tomarse en serio a Darwin. Aunque afirmar esto quizá no resulte muy arriesgado –sobre todo entre filósofos de la biología–, se pretende sirva como contexto para hacer volver la mirada hacia el pragmatismo, y en particular al experimentalismo como método filosófico de gran fertilidad, relevancia y actualidad. Intento articular esto siguiendo los conceptos relacionados de evolución, cognición y cultura.
PALABRAS CLAVE
TRANSACCIÓN, EXPERIMENTALISMO, EVOLUCIÓN, COGNICIÓN, CULTURA
ABSTRACT
The chief influence of Darwinian biology on philosophy is naturalism. This impact is clearly manifest in and through John Dewey’s work, wherein the relationship between nature and experience –or culture– is the outstanding problem for philosophy. So, from a historiographical point of view it is claimed that Dewey is the first philosopher to take Darwin seriously. Although this is not a risky claim to make –especially among philosophers of biology–, what I want to do here is redirect reader’s attention to pragmatism, and particularly to experimentalism, as a philosophical method of great fertility, relevance and contemporary application. I try to formulate all this in terms of evolution, cognition and culture as related concepts.
KEY WORDS
TRANSACTION, EXPERIMENTALISM, EVOLUTION, COGNITION, CULTURE
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