Defending the Ontological Priority of the Social: Epistemology and Ideologyin the Nuclear Model of Inheritanceand in the Beginning of the Molecular Biology
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Molecular Biology, Neo-pragmatism, Social Ontology, Genetic Epistemology, Richard Rorty.Abstract
I will relate some social and epistemic aspects involved in the conceptual development of the genetic model in the early Molecular Biology. I will use the link between Biology and Physics as a framework, which supports such assumptions, providing new methodologies, but mainly as a framework that provides a model of objectivity developed within Modern Tradition. Finally, I will interpret this relationship from the pragmatist perspective to embrace Rorty’s thesis on «the ontological priority of the social» which implies understanding biology as a part of a general cultural politics.Downloads
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