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- Title
¿FUE DARWIN EL «NEWTON DE LA BRIZNA DE HIERBA»? LA HERENCIA DE KANT EN LA TEORÍA DARWINISTA DE LA EVOLUCIÓN.
- Authors
Laura Nuño De La Rosa; Arantza Etxeberria
- Abstract
Kantian criticism left a double legacy to the biology of the 19th Century: his notion of science based on Newtonian mechanism motivates and shapes epistemologically Darwin's theory of evolution, whereas his understanding of organisms as natural purposes gave rise to a teleological morphology. In this paper we pose two questions about the relation between Kant's and Darwin's ideas: 1) whether Kant would have considered Darwin to be the Newton of Biology, to which our answer is affirmative; 2) whether Newtonian Physics is today enough to naturalize Biology. Our negative answer, based on self-organization and evo-devo, allows to set out the naturalization of the Kantian approach to organisms.
- Publication
Endoxa, 2009, Issue 24, p185
- ISSN
1133-5351
- Publication type
Academic Journal