Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Technique
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.48160/18532330me8.175Keywords:
evolution, transaction, technique, fitnessAbstract
My initial stance scarcely needs a defense among naturalists: the continuum between biology and culture. From there I try to call attention, on one hand, to the biological basis of the technicaland their reciprocal evolution; and, on the other, over the technical basis of biology and the mutual evolution between biology and techniques. This approach could help us advance in the task of understanding what humanity is and can become through its action upon the world. I envisage a picture that goes beyond a mere approximation, and involves a real intermingling of biology and anthropology and therefore of philosophy of biology and philosophy of technique.
References
Aunger, R. (2002), The Electric Meme. A New Theory About How We Think, New York: Free Press.
Basalla, G. (1988),The Evolution of Technology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bashour, B.y H. Muller(eds.) (2014), Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications, New York: Routledge.
Bejan, A. y P. Zane (2012), Design in Nature, New York-Toronto: Doubleday-Random House, Inc.
Carlson, R. (2010), Biology is Technology, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Cavalli-Sforza, L. (2007), La evolución de la cultura, Barcelona: Anagrama.
Clark, S. (2003),From Biosphere to Technosphere, Ends-Means: Aberdeen University.
Darwin, C. ([1876]2009),The Origin of Species, Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
Dawkins, R. (1976), The Selfish Gene, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dennett, D. (1987), The Intentional Stance, Cambridge: MIT Press.
Dennett, D. (1995), Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, London: Penguin.
Dessauer, F. (1964), Discusión sobre la técnica, Madrid: Rialp.
Dewey, J. (1896), “The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology”, Psychological ReviewIII (July 1896): 357-70.
Dewey, J. (1909), “Darwin’s Influence upon Philosophy”, The Popular Science Monthly75: 90-98.
Dewey, J. ([1925]1948), La experiencia y la naturaleza, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Dewey, J. ([1934]1949), El arte como experiencia, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Dewey, J. ([1929]1952), La busca de la certeza, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Diéguez, A. (2017), Transhumanismo. La búsqueda tecnológica del mejoramiento humano, Barcelona: Herder.
Dosi, G. (1982), “Technological paradigms and technological trajectories”, Research Policy11: 147-162.
Ellul, J. (1990), The Technological Bluff, Grand Rapids, Mi.: William B. Eerdmans.
Engels, F.([1876]1980), “El papel del trabajo en la transformación del mono en hombre”, en Marx y Engels, Obras escogidas, Tomo III, Moscú: Editorial Progreso, pp. 45-56.
Feldman, M. (2003), “Genetics and Behavior”, en Kuper, A. y J. Kuper (eds.), The Social Science Encyclopedia, London: Routledge, pp. 571-574.
Geach, P. (1969), God and the Soul, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Gissis, S. y E. Jablonka (2011), Transformations of Lamarckism, Cambridge: MIT Press.
Grene, M. (1974), The Understanding of Nature: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology, Dordrecht: Reidel.
Hughes, T. (2012), “The Evolution of Large Technological Systems”, en Bijker, W., Hughes, T. y T. Pinch (eds.), The Social Construction of Technological Systems, Cambridge: MIT Press, pp.51-82.
Hull, D. (1974), Philosophy of Biological Science, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
Jablonka, E. y M. Lamb (1995), Epigenetic Inheritance and Evolution. The Lamarckian Dimension, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Jablonka, E. y M. Lamb (2014), Evolution in Four Dimensions, Cambridge: MIT Press.
Kuhn, T. (1962), The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago:The University of Chicago Press.
Lewens T. (2004), Organisms and Artifacts: Design in Nature and Elsewhere, Cambridge, Mass.:MIT Press.
Lewontin, R. (1992), Biology as Ideology, Toronto:House of Anansi Press.
Lumsden, C. y E. Wilson (1981), Genes, Mind and Culture: The Co-evolutionary Process,Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Mumford, L. ([1967]2010), El mito de la máquina. Técnica y evolución humana, Logroño: Pepitas de calabaza.
Nelson, R. (2007), “Universal Darwinism and Evolutionary Social Science”, Biology and Philosophy22: 73-94.
Newman, A. y R. Bhat (2011), “Lamarck’s Dangerous Idea”, en Gissis, S. y E. Jablonka (eds). Transformations of Lamarckism: From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 157-169.
Norberg-Hodge, H. (1995), “The Pressure to Modernise”, en Goldsmith, E., Khor, M., Norberg-Hodge, H. y V.Shiva (eds.), The Future of the Progress, Guildford, UK: Green Books and The International Society for Ecology and Culture, pp.91-108.
Oakley, K. (1967), “Skill as a Human Possession”, en Singer, C. y E. Holmyard(eds.), A History of Technology, Vol. I., Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-37.
Ortegay Gassset, J. ([1939]1964), Meditación de la técnica. Ensimismamiento y alteración, Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva.
Renwick, C. (2012), British Sociology’s lost Biological Roots: A History of Future Past, London-New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Richerson, P. y R. Boyd (2005), Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution, Chicago:University of Chicago Press.
Sachs, E. (1992), The Development Dictionary, London: Zed Books.
Sahal D. (1981), “Alternative Conceptions of Technology”, Research Policy10(1): 2-24.
Sahlins D. ([1976]1982), Uso y abuso de la biología. Una crítica antropológica de la sociobiología, Madrid: Siglo XXI.
Shiva, V. (1995), “Globalism, Biodiversity and the Third World”, en Goldsmith, E., Khor, M., Norberg-Hodge, H. y V.Shiva (eds.), The Future of the Progress, Guildford, UK: Green Books and The International Society for Ecology and Culture, pp. 50-67.
Simondon, G. (2007), El modo de existencia de los objetos técnicos, Buenos Aires: Prometeo.
Wilson, E.O. (1975), Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Cambridge: Belknap/Harvard University Press.
Wilson, E.O. (1998), Consilience. The Unity of Knowledge, New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Wilson, E.O. ([1978]2004), On Human Nature, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2018 Metatheoria – Journal of Philosophy and History of ScienceThe documents published here are governed by the licensing criteria
Creative Commons Argentina.Atribución - No Comercial - Sin Obra Derivada 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ar/
