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Tecnica e linguaggio alle soglie dell'umano : riflessioni al crocevia tra filosofia ed evoluzione
Full text linkThe article aims at developing some aspects of the fruitful reflections contained in Carmine Di Martino’s book Viventi umani e non umani. Tecnica, linguaggio e memoria (Milano 2017), es-pecially those concerning the nature and the origin of the human technique and language. The specific purpose of the present paper is to discuss some possible theoretical developments of those topics in connection with the latest discoveries in human evolution field and with the most recent lines of research emerging in the epistemological debates concerning the structure of the standard evolutionary theory. In particular, the article examines the proposal to rethink the human evolution in the light of a multilevel and extended evolutionary synthesis, and of a “tree thinking” and “mosaic” approach. A concluding section addresses a recurring crucial issue in Di Martino’s book, concerning the relationship between philosophy and scientific theories. The possible role of the philosophical practice is analyzed in order to avoid the superstitious at-titude that consists of thinking about scientific truths as something absolutely objective and in-dependent from the practical activities, techniques, and theoretical constructions, which con-stantly put them into being
Resoconto del Convegno Internazionale : ripensare il pragmatismo in occasione del centenario della morte di Vailati
No full textCronaca del Convegno internazionale "Ripensare il Pragmatismo : in occasione del centenario della morte di Giovanni Vailati" tenutosi all'Università degli Studi di Milano il 7-8 ottobre 2009
Scienza e filosofia: Riflessioni per un'alleanza transdisciplinare
Full text linkDespite historical connections between science and philosophy have always been tight, today’s scientists often consider philosophy as extraneous, and sometimes even antagonistic, to science. In this paper I argue that, to the contrary, philosophy may have an important and productive impact on today’s science, fragmented into a multitude of specialized fields, by contributing to analyse and clarify concepts and hypotheses, assessing methods, formulating new theories and fostering the interdisciplinary dialogue between different sciences, as well as between sciences and society. More importantly, scientists cannot avoid to make non-empirical assumptions when conducting research, and philosophy can help to identify and critically debating them. I conclude by affirming the importance of a transdisciplinary dialogue between science and philosophy, which is crucial for a reciprocal ethical transformation that could open the road to a more aware and responsible way of approaching knowledge and acting in the present complex world
Un incontro tra darwinismo e pragmatismo : Chauncey Wright e l'origine dell'autocoscienza
No full textLe critiche di S.J.Gould a un’interpretazione “adattazionista” del processo evolutivo e la sua proposta di distinguere, in esso, tra adaptations ed exaptations, stanno riscuotendo oggi una crescente adesione tra biologi e filosofi. Pochi sanno però che già a partire dal 1870 Chauncey Wright, maestro di James e Peirce, aveva elaborato una riflessione sulla teoria darwiniana in cui si conferiva un’importanza centrale, in senso anti-adattazionista, a un meccanismo pressoché identico a quello “exattativo”. A partire da questa impostazione e dall’esigenza genealogica di distinguere tra l’utilità attuale di una struttura e i motivi della sua origine, Wright ha elaborato in direzione pragmatista un pensiero centrato sull’importanza degli effetti, degli usi, dei segni, aprendo una strada teoreticamente promettente per ripensare, oggi, secondo la direzione indicata dal filosofo, la grande questione della genesi evolutiva della mente e del linguaggio umani
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