Séminaire de Biologie Théorique, CREA (Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée)– CNRS / Polytechnique, París. Despite its radical importance in the development of organicism, embryology remains philosophically underexplored as a theoretical and empirical resource to clarify the nature of organisms. In my presentation I will discuss how developmental biology can help develop the organizational definition […]
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Mephistos 25. University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). April 2007. The Aristotelian notion of movement is often said to have been overcome by the two great revolutions that inaugurated modern scientific thought: Newtonian physics and Darwinian biology. Aristotle’s metaphysical framework was fundamentally developed within biology, which is often ignored when interpreting his philosophy from the […]
La forma orgánica se ha presentado desde la Grecia clásica como un factum problemático cuya entidad ha tratado de resolverse desde dos posicionamientos opuestos: la reducción de la forma biológica a mera apariencia resultante de la interacción mecánica de los elementos que la componen, y la defensa de una legalidad rectora de las morfologías orgánicas […]
Laura Nuño de la Rosa García y José Luis González Recio The paper we present has four fundamental goals: 1. To analyze the role of Art in Aristotle’s and Kant’s conceptions on Nature; 2. To value the meaning that sculpture and painting had in their respective organism’s concept –and, in consequence, in the ways they […]
Laura Nuño de la Rosa 