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Plant Morphology: The Historic Concepts of Wilhelm Troll, Walter Zimmermann and Agnes Arber
2001
Recent molecular systematic and developmental genetic findings have drawn attention to plant morphology as a discipline dealing with the phenotypic appearance of plant forms. However, since different terms and conceptual frameworks have evolved over a period of more than 200 years, it is reasonable to survey the history of plant morphology; this is the first of two papers with this aim. The present paper deals with the historic concepts of Troll, Zimmermann and Arber, which are based on Goethe's morphology. Included are contrasting views of ‘unity and diversity’, ‘position and process’, and ‘morphology and phylogeny’, which, in part, are basic views of current plant morphology, phylogenetic…
The logic of forms in the light of developmental biology and palaeontology.
2010
11 pages; If you ask palaeontologists, and indeed anyone interested in the theory of evolution, for the key words that encapsulate it, you will obtain the following results: adaptation, natural selection, speciation, but also ontogeny and phylogeny. The first three key words apply to the future of the individual and by extension to the future of the species: we are therefore dealing with adults of a reproductive age. The two other key words concern (i) the evolution of the morphology from the egg to the adult (individual ontogeny: short timescale) and especially what goes on in the black box called embryogenesis, and (ii) the modification of ontogenetic sequences over time, resulting in cha…
Nuovo realismo e metodi di ricerca misti
2014
Il nuovo realismo ha evidenziato i limiti del costruttivismo sociale e del cosiddetto «pensiero debole», che rischia di sfociare nel nichilismo. Sono stati recentemente rimossi dei pregiudizi che impedivano di cogliere la realtà dei fatti educativi nella sua concreta evidenza. Tuttavia un’apertura alla prospettiva metafisica offrirebbe al nuovo realismo ulteriori spazi epistemologici. In tale senso il contributo del realismo critico potrebbe aiutare a superare l’artificiosa antinomia tra il ruolo attivo del soggetto conoscente e la rilevazione oggettiva dei fatti educativi. Se si realizzasse questa apertura la conoscenza scientifica e la conoscenza corrente non sarebbero più viste come anti…
El escultor del tiempo: claves de la “filosofía cinematográfica” de Gilles Deleuze
2018
Gilles Deleuze ha ofrecido en sus dos estudios sobre cine —L’image–mouvement y L’image– temps— una de las propuestas más ambiciosas de las últimas décadas en lo que concierne a la relación entre filosofía y cine, hasta el punto de construir una auténtica “filosofía cinematográfica” y de inaugurar, en paralelo a Stanley Cavell, una fructífera línea de investigación filosófica que ha dado en denominarse como “film–philosophy”. Su primera obra se centra, fundamentalmente, en elaborar una metafísica del tiempo inspirada en la filosofía de Henri Bergson, pero utilizando las posibilidades del cine para complementar y trascender las ideas del autor de L’évolution créatice. En su se…
¿Un transhumanismo nietzscheano? Sobre la parcialidad del alegato
2020
espanolEl articulo analiza desde una perspectiva critica las tentativas de interpretar a Nietzsche como un precursor del transhumanismo. Tras una breve contextualizacion del fecundo debate en torno a Nietzsche y el transhumanismo, se evalua el caracter fraccional o parcial del alegato de Stefan Sorgner en favor de un “transhumanismo nietzscheano”. Despues, se investiga la tension entre humanidad, la superacion del ser humano y su cria en los escritos de Nietzsche. Una vez ejecutado este analisis, y sin animo de caer en el anacronismo, se sostiene que Nietzsche anticipa ciertamente un germen de la idea de post-humanidad, en su critica de la cultura humanista y en su invitacion a transformar …
L'ontologia dei campi di senso e la riforma della metafisica
2015
A discussion of Markus' Gabriel sense-fields ontology with many critical assessments to its fundaments raised by the perspectives of a reformed metaphysics, i. e. a philosophy of the whole which doesn't not need to diminish its claims to gain epistemic credibility.
Los órganos amiboides de Ortega y García Bacca
2019
El presente artículo pretende exponer la posible influencia que la filosofía de José Ortega y Gasset ejerció sobre el filósofo español del exilio republicano Juan David García Bacca, con el fin de poder determinar hasta qué punto y, de qué modo, fue clave en la gestación del proyecto metafísico garcíabacquiano. This article aims to expose the possible influence that the philosophy of José Ortega y Gasset exerted on the Spanish philosopher of the Republican exile Juan David García Bacca, in order to determine to what extent and, how, was key in the gestation of Bacca’s metaphysical project.
Metaontology
2015
[ES] El término «metaontología» se aplica a la indagación sobre la naturaleza de la ontología. Si bien este tipo de indagación tiene importantes precedentes en la historia de la filosofía moderna, en los últimos quince años ha cobrado renovado interés dentro de la tradición analítica, en parte debido al notorio desarrollo de la ontología misma en las últimas décadas. En este capítulo se presentarán algunos de los principales problemas metaontológicos, y las posiciones más destacadas sobre los mismos. [EN] The term «metaontology» applies to the inquiry on the nature of ontology. Although this type of inquiry has important precedents in the history of modern philosophy, in the last fifteen ye…
La influencia de Pierre Bayle en la construcción de la segunda antinomia de la razón pura
2020
This paper aims to establish precisely the scope of Pierre Bayle’s influence on the construction of Kant’s second antinomy of pure reason, since there is a remarkable parallelism between this second cosmological conflict and the argument against extension of the article “Zeno of Elea” of Bayle’s Dictionary. It is argued that Bayle, employing the skeptical method in metaphysical research, has a major influence on the construction of the main arguments of the second antinomy and sets a precedent for its logical solution.
Ancient Theories of Intellection
2013
Ancient philosophical schools shared the view that, in addition to perceptual capacities, human beings have reason. It was also generally supposed that reason is not to be understood solely as a capacity of inference, but that it must also have content (1). Such content was often taken to be general: as opposed to perception which deals with particulars, reasoning operates with general or universal features of reality. However, views diverged as to how or whether such contents are acquired and whether they rather pre-exist in the soul. Whereas the view according to which intelligible forms can be grasped by human reason was wide-spread in the Platonic-Aristotelian tradition, Hellenistic phi…