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Nóema 9, 2018
A partire dall’utilizzo sempre più ricorrente dell’«Effetto Baldwin» nell’attuale dibattito evolu... more A partire dall’utilizzo sempre più ricorrente dell’«Effetto Baldwin» nell’attuale dibattito evoluzionistico, l’intento di questo articolo è quello di andare ad analizzare teoreticamente l’originale veste di tale principio, inizialmente chiamato «selezione organica», all’interno del pensiero di uno dei suoi principali fautori: James Mark Baldwin. Le osservazioni evoluzionistiche di questo autore, in parte dimenticate nella riformulazione dell’«Effetto Baldwin» da parte della Sintesi Moderna, risultano particolarmente originali proprio alla luce del contemporaneo tentativo di «estensione» del paradigma darwiniano.
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Azimuth. Philosophical Coordinates in Modern and Contemporary Age, 2022
The Darwinian theory of evolution has brought unprecedented changes in Western thought. Pragmatis... more The Darwinian theory of evolution has brought unprecedented changes in Western thought. Pragmatist philosopher John Dewey pointed out that the title of Darwin's masterpiece, The Origin of Species (1859), expressed an intellectual revolt against the previously dominant philosophy of nature. This considered the intrinsic superiority of what is fixed, immutable and has a final purpose over anything that changes, unfolds without purpose or has an origin in time. In this light, Darwin started off a real philosophical revolution, delivering to the scientific community a theory capable of interpreting living phenomena and the underlying processes without appealing to final causes, divine creations or intelligent designs. Evolutionary theory could account for the origin and diversity of life through law-like patterns and processes normally operating in nature. Recent research is throwing new light on Darwin's project, moving it forward and bringing about fruitful reciprocal influences between scientific evolutionism and philosophy. The present Azimuth's issue will discuss the rich possibilities and uses offered by recent evolutionary research program when approaching problems and fields of contemporary philosophical thought. First, the goal of the issue is to show the importance of an ongoing dialogue between biology-evolutionary biology in particular-and philosophy. Second, it inquires what an extended (i.e. pluralistic and multilevel) vision of evolution can teach us about the conundrum of human nature and which interpretative paths, previously left unexplored by classic philosophical approaches, can thus arise.
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by Lo Sguardo - Rivista di Filosofia, Alberto Romele, Alice Orrù, Michael Lewis, Michele Pavan, Giulia Lanzirotti, Emma Barettoni, Federico SQUARCINI, Chiara Pertile, Michela Bella, Matteo Santarelli, Carlo Crosato, and Giacomo Pezzano Lo Sguardo, 2020
Senza indulgere alla pretesa di delineare una genealogia organica e unilineare dell’habitus, dell... more Senza indulgere alla pretesa di delineare una genealogia organica e unilineare dell’habitus, dell’hexis e dell’abitudine, e piuttosto nella consapevolezza che tali nozioni, pur così affini e pervase di una innegabile ‘aria di famiglia’, fruttificano nell’arco di stagioni storico-filosofiche diverse e animate da premure teoriche e pratiche eterogenee, che ne impediscono una piana sovrapponibilità e intercambiabilità, i contributi raccolti in questo fascicolo si propongono di portare ulteriore linfa agli studi di filosofia dell’abitudine insistendo sulle linee di faglia che intessono la costellazione problematica che abbiamo delineato: prima e seconda natura dell’essere umano, avere ed essere, potenza e atto, attività e passività, esterno e interno, corporeità e spiritualità, memoria e anticipazione, inconscio e coscienza, automatismo e riflessività, determinismo e libertà, riproduzione e cambiamento, individuazione e socializzazione.
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Darwin'sTangled Legacy. Evolutionary Perspectives in Contemporary Thought (ed. by Andrea Parravicini, Andra Meneganzin, Chiara Pertile), 2022
The present issue discusses the uses, opportunities and misuses of the recent evolutionary resear... more The present issue discusses the uses, opportunities and misuses of the recent evolutionary research program when approaching key issues in contemporary philosophical thought. One aim of the current issue is to illustrate past and current avenues of productive dialogue between biology – evolutionary biology, in particular – and philosophy. Further, the issue investigates what the evolutionary conceptual and empirical repertoire can teach us about life and human nature conundrums and which interpretative paths, previously left unexplored by classic philosophical approaches, arise from such perspective. Never as in contemporary philosophical debates, the Darwinian perspective emerged as a vital tool or, in John Dewey’s words, as “the greatest dissolvent in contemporary thought of old questions, the greatest precipitant of new methods, new intentions, new problems”.
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