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900A Theory of Evolution as a Process of UnfoldingCosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 16 (1): 347-379. 2020.In this work I propose a theory of evolution as a process of unfolding. This theory is based on four logically concatenated principles. The principle of evolutionary order establishes that the more complex cannot be generated from the simpler. The principle of origin establishes that there must be a maximum complexity that originates the others by logical deduction. Finally, the principle of unfolding and the principle of actualization guarantee the development of the evolutionary process from t…Read more
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609The Ideological Matrix of Science: Natural Selection and Immunity as Case StudiesCosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 15 (1): 182-213. 2019.The modern concept of ideology was established by the liberal politician and philosopher Destutt de Tracy, with the objective of creating an all-embracing and general science of ideas, which followed the sensualist and empiricist trend initiated by Locke that culminated in the positivism of Comte. Natural selection and immunity are two key concepts in the history of biology that were strongly based on the Malthusian concept of struggle for existence. This concept wrongly assumed that population …Read more
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448Bogdanov and the Theory of Two SciencesSociologia Em Rede 5 (5): 114-118. 2015.What is the relation between science and ideology? Are they incompatible, complementary or the same thing? Should science avoid "contamination" from ideology? Is there an only way to do science? Does anyone of them lead to the same results and give us the same worldview? We will focus on the figure of Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher, in order to discuss these and other relevant topics. His theories gave birth to what may be called later "the theory of two sciences", which e…Read more
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439The Evolution Concept: The Concept EvolutionCosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 14 (3): 354-378. 2018.This is an epistemologically-driven history of the concept of evolution. Starting from its inception, this work will follow the development of this pregnant concept. However, in contradistinction to previous attempts, the objective will not be the identification of the different meanings it adopted through history, but conversely, it will let the concept to be unfolded, to be explicated and to express its own inner potentialities. The underlying thesis of the present work is, therefore, that the…Read more
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399The Quest for a Holistic and Historical-Developmental Theory of the OrganismLudus Vitalis 27 (51): 23-42. 2019.In this work the doctrine of organicism will be addressed, as explained and seen mainly by Bertalanffy. We will study how this doctrine represents and embodies the ambiguity of Kantian teleology as a regulative principle, and how this same problem leads to consider a real problem as a knowledge problem. It will be concluded that organicism, conceived in this way, does not represent a true holism, but what we will call a syn-holism, a synthesis or assembly, and that to obtain a true holism we mus…Read more
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396The topic of the relationship between the organism and its environment runs through the theories of Uexküll, Goldstein and Canguilhem with equal importance. In this work a counterpoint will be established between their theories, in the attempt to assess at which points the melodies are concordant and at which points they are discordant. As fundamental basis to his theory, Uexküll relies on the concept of conformity to a plan, which allows him to account for the congruity and perfect adjustment b…Read more
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364The Umwelt of Uexküll and Merleau-PontyLudus Vitalis 21 (39): 45-65. 2013.The organism against its environment. The organism against other organisms, competing and struggling for life. Antagonism and confrontment as the only possible relation in nature. The tendency to anthropomorphize nature and explain it using concepts and facts from the human sphere. A stroll through the worlds of Uexküll and Merleau-Ponty in the search of alternative knowledge that allow us to understand relation from another point of view. A counterpoint and identification of common tonalities b…Read more
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361The Unfolding of a New Vision of Life, Cosmos and EvolutionLudus Vitalis 28 (53): 81-83. 2020.Has science already answered the fundamental questions about the concepts of Life, Cosmos and Evolution? Has science not relegated these fundamental questions by following up on more immediate, “useful” and practical endeavors that ultimately ensure that the wheel of capitalism keeps spinning in its frantic search for material and economic progress? There is something terribly wrong with the current theory of evolution, understood as the Darwinian theory with its successive versions and extensio…Read more
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358The Principle of Life: from Aristotelian Psyche to Drieschian EntelechyLudus Vitalis 24 (45): 37-59. 2016.Is life a simple result of a conjunction of physico-chemical processes? Can be reduced to a mere juxtaposition of spatially determined events? What epistemology or world-view allows us to comprehend it? Aristotle built a novel philosophical system in which nature is a dynamical totality which is in constant movement. Life is a manifestation of it, and is formed and governed by the psyche. Psyche is the organizational principle of the different biological levels: nutritive, perceptive and intelec…Read more
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306Life as Normative Activity and Self-realization: Debate surrounding the Concept of Biological Normativity in Goldstein and CanguilhemHistória, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos 22 (4): 1199-1214. 2015.The influence of Kurt Goldstein on the thinking of Georges Canguilhem extended throughout his entire work. This paper seeks to examine this relationship in order to conduct a study of the norm as a nexus or connection between the concept and life. Consequently, this work will be a reflection on the approach to life as a normative activity and self-realization. For this, it will be necessary to redefine the concepts of health and disease, and make a crossover between the two. At the end of this traj…Read more
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298Life: the Center of our ExistenceLudus Vitalis 26 (50): 257-260. 2018.Life is the center of our existence. One would be tempted to say that first of all we live. However, our existence does not seem to pass in that modality. The exacerbated materialism in which our existence takes place, displaces life from the center of the scene. Our society is organized around production, consumerism, exploitation, efficiency, trade and propaganda. That is to say, our existence seems to have economy as the center of organization of our activities. The struggle of this century t…Read more
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286The Theory of Two Sciences: Bourgeois and Proletarian ScienceRevista Iberoamericana de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad 10 (Suppl 1): 191-194. 2015.What is the relation between science and ideology? Are they incompatible, complementary or the same thing? Should science avoid “contamination” from ideology? Is there an only way to do science? Does anyone of them lead to the same results and give us the same worldview? We will focus on the figure of Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher, in order to discuss these and other relevant topics. His theories gave birth to what may be called later “the theory of two sciences”, which e…Read more
Agustin Ostachuk
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
EVOLUTIO: A Research Center for Evolution and Development
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Universidad Nacional de La PlataResearcher
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EVOLUTIO: A Research Center for Evolution and DevelopmentDirector
La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Areas of Specialization
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Philosophy of Biology |
Evolutionary Biology |
Evolutionary Developmental Biology |
History of Biology |
Complexity in Biology |
Life |
Biology and Society |