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Veröffentlicht: Universidad del Norte 2011
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contents From substantival to functional vitalism and beyond: animas, organisms and attitudes Charles T. Wolfe Filosofía Driesch Vitalism Canguilhem Montpellier School functional vitalism I distinguish between 'substantival' and 'functional' forms of vitalism in the eighteenth century. Substantival vitalism presupposes the existence of a (substantive) vital force which either plays a causal role in the natural world as studied scientifically, or remains an immaterial, extra-causal entity. Functional vitalism tends to operate 'post facto', from the existence of living bodies to the search for explanatory models that will account for their uniquely 'vital' properties better than fully mechanistic models can. I discuss representative figures of the Montpellier school (Bordeu, Ménuret, Fouquet) as functional rather than substantival vitalists, and suggest an additional point regarding the reprisal of vitalism(s) in the 20th century, from Driesch to Canguilhem: that in addition to the substantival and functional varieties, we encounter a third species of vitalism, which I term 'attitudinal', as it argues for vitalism as a kind of attitude. 2011 artículo científico 1692-8857 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=85422476009 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=854 Eidos: Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad del Norte application/pdf Universidad del Norte Eidos: Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad del Norte (Colombia) Num.14
format Artículo científico
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language en
publishDate 2011
publisher Universidad del Norte
spellingShingle From substantival to functional vitalism and beyond: animas, organisms and attitudes
Charles T. Wolfe
Filosofía
Driesch
Vitalism
Canguilhem
Montpellier School
functional vitalism
From substantival to functional vitalism and beyond: animas, organisms and attitudes Charles T. Wolfe Filosofía Driesch Vitalism Canguilhem Montpellier School functional vitalism I distinguish between 'substantival' and 'functional' forms of vitalism in the eighteenth century. Substantival vitalism presupposes the existence of a (substantive) vital force which either plays a causal role in the natural world as studied scientifically, or remains an immaterial, extra-causal entity. Functional vitalism tends to operate 'post facto', from the existence of living bodies to the search for explanatory models that will account for their uniquely 'vital' properties better than fully mechanistic models can. I discuss representative figures of the Montpellier school (Bordeu, Ménuret, Fouquet) as functional rather than substantival vitalists, and suggest an additional point regarding the reprisal of vitalism(s) in the 20th century, from Driesch to Canguilhem: that in addition to the substantival and functional varieties, we encounter a third species of vitalism, which I term 'attitudinal', as it argues for vitalism as a kind of attitude. 2011 artículo científico 1692-8857 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=85422476009 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=854 Eidos: Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad del Norte application/pdf Universidad del Norte Eidos: Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad del Norte (Colombia) Num.14
title From substantival to functional vitalism and beyond: animas, organisms and attitudes
topic Filosofía
Driesch
Vitalism
Canguilhem
Montpellier School
functional vitalism
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=85422476009