Search results for "Darwinism"
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Die Lust an der Kultur/Theorie. Transdisziplinäre Interventionen. Für Wolfgang Müller-Funk
2013
Nietzsche y el mejoramiento humano. Reflexiones en torno a la noción de vida
2017
El presente trabajo expone el diálogo entre nietzsche y la escuela darwinista, destacando el contraste entre dos nociones de «vida» opuestas: vida como lucha por la supervivencia o vida como voluntad de poder. En oposición a la selección natural, que según nietzsche no favorece a los fuertes y poderosos sino a lo mediano y al «gran número», el filósofo alemán idea un proyecto de cría (Züchtung), una formación tanto fisiológica como moral que aspira a una auténtica elevación del ser humano, mediante la superación de las interpretaciones nihilistas y la transvaloración de los valores desde una perspectiva vitalista.
El darwinismo social y la filología decimonónica: rastreo de la ideología a través de la prensa histórica
2021
espanolEn este trabajo, se persigue demostrar que el pensamiento darwiniano estaba enraizado en concepciones supremacistas y que este pensamiento no solo marco la biologia decimononica, sino tambien el resto de disciplinas sociales y humanas al convertirse la biologia como maximo exponente de lo que se entendia como ciencia. No solo se tomaron como premisas los presupuestos metodologicos de la biologia, sino tambien su concepcion supremacista. Y la filologia no fue una excepcion. A traves del rastreo en la prensa historica decimononica, queremos demostrar que estas ideas calaron en la sociedad, pero tambien en el pensamiento filologico hispanico del siglo XIX. La reconstruccion de la preten…
Dialoghi a distanza in tema di socialità e storicità del diritto. Italia, Francia e Germania tra fine Ottocento e primo Novecento
2015
L’intreccio di trasformazioni che tra Otto e Novecento cambia il volto dell’Europa fa da sfondo a uno dei momenti più alti della storia della cultura giuridica. Un comune afflato sembra ispirare gli indirizzi che in Italia, Francia e Germania sollecitano un rinnovamento del metodo e un ripensamento della stessa nozione di diritto. Le fibrillazioni della «Scuola sociale del diritto», già attiva in Italia negli anni Ottanta, incrociavano le inquietudini del “rinascimento giuridico” francese e le provocazioni del gius-liberismo tedesco, sovrapponendosi le une alle altre, percorrendo itinerarii contigui, attingendo a un patrimonio scientifico comune. Le componenti eterodosse della cultura giuri…
The paramount power of selection: From Darwin to Kauffman
1995
For approximately two decades now, the Darwinian interpretation of evolution has now been challenged in many ways. Modern criticisms make it difficult, even for the staunchest Darwinians, not to take a distance from Darwin’s bold phrases on the “power” of natural selection. Let me remind you of some famous declarations of Darwin on the subject: “It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and i…
1993
The formulation of the synthetic theory represented a significant-advance for evolutionary studies, which had previously been hampered by apparently irreconcilable contractions. Combining Mendelian laws with Darwinism, it joined the antitheses in a synthesis which was subsequently refined and completed. Today, its content may not be simply rejected or ignored, although there are those who think of it as little more than a corpse.
Darwinism and the Origin of Life
2012
Abstract Historically, ideas on the origins of life have been mingled with evolutionary explanations. Darwin avoided discussing the origin of the very first species in public although he acknowledged the possibility that life originated by natural causes. Some of his followers adopted this materialistic position and advocated some sort of spontaneous generation in the distant past. Nevertheless, Pasteur’s experiments were a major obstacle for scientific acceptance of the sudden emergence of life. The scientific study of the origin of life, established in the 1920s, required abandoning the idea of a unique chance event and considering a view of life emerging as the result of a long evolution…
Darwinismo, storicismo, socialità. La «nuova tendenza» di Giuseppe Vadalà-Papale
2012
L’ultimo ventennio dell’Ottocento fa da sfondo ad un’intensa fase di rinnovamento della scienza giuridica italiana, sollecitata dalle conseguenze economico-sociali dell’industrializzazione e dalla ridefinizione in senso sociologico del quadro scientifico-disciplinare. Dal 1881 Giuseppe Vadalà-Papale, civilista, sociologo e filosofo del diritto, dà avvio ad un itinerario riflessivo paradigmatico, nel quale la questione del metodo costituisce il fulcro di un ripensamento critico di ampio respiro: il divario tra la legge e la realtà, tra la cifra individualistica dei codici e le tendenze associative della società industriale, diventa l’occasione per riscoprire la dimensione storico-sociale del…
Role of information backflow in the emergence of quantum Darwinism
2019
Quantum Darwinism attempts to explain the emergence of objective reality of the state of a quantum system in terms of redundant information about the system acquired by independent non interacting fragments of the environment. The consideration of interacting environmental elements gives rise to a rich phenomenology, including the occurrence of non-Markovian features, whose effects on objectification {\it a' la} quantum Darwinism needs to be fully understood. We study a model of local interaction between a simple quantum system and a multi-mode environment that allows for a clear investigation of the interplay between information trapping and propagation in the environment and the emergence…
Compositional Homology and Creative Thinking
2015
The concept of homology is the most solid theoretical basis elaborated by the morphological thinking during its history. The enucleation of some general criteria for the interpretation of homology is today a fundamental tool for life sciences, and for restoring their own opening to the question of qualitative innovation that arose so powerfully in the original Darwinian project. The aim of this paper is to verify the possible uses of the concept of compositional homology in order to provide of an adequate understanding of the dynamics of creative thinking.