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A life dedicated to research and ideal: Johannes Müller between empirical universality and idealistic vitalism mirrored in lecture notes from 1851.
Theory Biosci
September 2024
Paläontologische Sammlung, Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Eberhard Karls Universität, Hölderlinstraße 12, 72074, Tübingen, Germany.
Until the mid-nineteenth century, "physiology" was a comprehensive theory of life, expounded and shaped by Johannes P. Müller (1801-1858). Biologists and medical doctors still refer to him today.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOn the origin of life on earth.
AIDS Rev
June 2024
Philosophy School, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
The creation of the universe out of nothing (ex nihilo) is attributable to the eternal God. Would a direct divine intervention be needed for other singular events, such as the origin of life? Taking apart the human being, created to image and resemblance of God, we argue that current scientific knowledge allows us to rationally admit a continuity between the origins of the universe and the emergence of life on Earth. Although the irruption of living beings from inert matter is a leap or discontinuity in creation, a direct intervention of God would not be indispensable.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInvasion on So Grand a Scale: Darwin, Lyell, and Invasive Species.
J Hist Biol
June 2024
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
The importance of naturalization-the establishment of species introduced into foreign places-to the early development of Darwin's theory of evolution deserves historical attention. Introduced and invasive European species presented Darwin with interpretive challenges during his service as naturalist on the HMS Beagle. Species naturalization and invasive species strained the geologist Charles Lyell's creationist view of the organic world, a view which Darwin adopted during the voyage of the Beagle but came to question afterward.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture.
Hist Philos Life Sci
March 2024
Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma, Illes Balears, 07122, Spain.
This article analyses the evolutionist discourses on the senses that emerged in the late 19th century, when theories on the evolution of species were in full sway. Drawing on newspapers, essays and medical literature, this article aims to set face to face the two currents of thought that I have identified regarding sensory evolution: the one that stressed the value of the progressive specialisation of the senses as evidence for human evolution mainly supported by Max Nordau, and the one which regarded the sensory regrouping, exemplified by the phenomenon of synaesthesia, as the true symptom of evolution, strongly supported by Victor Segalen. A close examination of their arguments will provide clues concerning their relative position vis-à-vis the theory that stressed the exceptional nature of humankind among all living beings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSociological genealogy of a non-teleological concept of evolution.
Front Sociol
February 2024
I-Communitas, Institute for Advanced Social Research, Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
The aim of this article is to carry out a sociological-conceptual genealogy of the evolutionist perspective (non-teleological) of approaching social reality. While during the first phases of modernity, a teleological and progressive conception of evolution was imposed, clearly manifested in the proposals of Auguste Comte or Herbert Spencer, in the last decades important bifurcations, processes, and developments have emerged that question the linearity and the finalist character of these positions. We consider that these approaches are closer to the nature of change and social phenomena, so it seems important to us to analyze some of the most outstanding contributions-in the form of sociological genealogy, as we have already mentioned-that have developed this perspective.
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