The awareness of a new congruence between two fields that have so far been regarded as separated, namely ontology and epistemology, is increasing in the life sciences and needs to be explored in the light of the fact that both fields are time-dependent. The pivotal role of historical constraints invests any reasoning on the living world and, in parallel, the epistemological tools for dealing with it. That role consists in highlighting a double link between objects or processes, on the reality side, and the primacy of syntax or semantics, on the epistemic side. Many criteria of knowledge change according to contemporary evolutionary theories, and consequently their feed-back on our self-perception affects our relationship with the explanatory criteria of scientific knowledge.

Object or process? Theoretical terms or frame-concepts? Coupled changes in the life sciences and in their epistemology / Gagliasso, Elena. - (2019), pp. 83-92.

Object or process? Theoretical terms or frame-concepts? Coupled changes in the life sciences and in their epistemology

Elena Gagliasso
2019

Abstract

The awareness of a new congruence between two fields that have so far been regarded as separated, namely ontology and epistemology, is increasing in the life sciences and needs to be explored in the light of the fact that both fields are time-dependent. The pivotal role of historical constraints invests any reasoning on the living world and, in parallel, the epistemological tools for dealing with it. That role consists in highlighting a double link between objects or processes, on the reality side, and the primacy of syntax or semantics, on the epistemic side. Many criteria of knowledge change according to contemporary evolutionary theories, and consequently their feed-back on our self-perception affects our relationship with the explanatory criteria of scientific knowledge.
2019
Perspectives on Evolutionary an Developmental Biology
978-88-6938-140-9
livings process; epistemology life sciences; theoretical terms; concepts-frame
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Object or process? Theoretical terms or frame-concepts? Coupled changes in the life sciences and in their epistemology / Gagliasso, Elena. - (2019), pp. 83-92.
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