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A Comparative study on the onto-epistemological presuppositions in landscape descriptions of romantics and naturalists
(2015-05-11)
Two facts are noteworthy in standard historiography on the perception and description of nature: (a) Apart from occasional exceptions (Hard 1970), there is no conceptual analysis of the onto-epistemological presuppositions ...
Metaphysics in the Work of Charles Darwin
(Simon Baumgartner, Thimo Heisenberg , Sebastian Krebs, 2013)
It is not hard to see how two visions of nature are intertwined in Darwin’s Journal of Researches: one vision, the province of romantic authors depicting the sentiments awakened by certain landscapes, the other, the domain ...
Romanticism, Alexander von Humboldt and the distinction of “Natur” and “Geist”
(2017-02-28)
Alexander von Humboldt is often considered a decisive figure in establishing clear methodological standards in modern natural sciences. But many people forget that he was a true Romanticist in his descriptions of nature ...
The Deteleologization of Nature: Darwin’s Language in On the Origin of Species
(De Gruyter, 2018)
Although a detailed analysis of Darwin’s lexicon in On the Origin of Species has not been undertaken, critical literature claims that there are lexical signs of a teleological nature in the language used in this work. I ...
Charles Darwin y la Descripción de la Naturaleza
(2015-05-11)
Se detectan dos formas diferentes de descripción en la obra de Darwin
Journal of Researches (1839): una forma estética de percibir el paisaje y una forma
enumerativa. Aquélla correspondería a los comentarios que Darwin ...
In the footstep of Hermes: the meaning of the hermeneutics and symbolism
(A. Murray, J. Roffe, M. Sharpe, 2013)
[EN] The meaning of hermeneutics is not something exclusive to hermeneutics; it is not something the hermeneutical enterprise dominates, masters, or even manages. Rather, hermeneutics must understand itself as an activity ...
Foresight and responsible innovation: Openness and closure in anticipatory heuristics
(Elsevier, 2021-12)
[EN]The heuristic versatility of foresight is increasingly positioning this anticipatory instrument as a key resource to promote more responsible research and innovation practices. In a context where foresight's multiple ...
“Minimal metabolism”: A key concept to investigate the origins and nature of biological systems
(Wiley, 2021-10)
The systems view on life and its emergence from complex chemistry has remarkably increased the scientific attention on metabolism in the last two decades. However, during this time there has not been much theoretical ...
Editorial: ‘Inter-Identities’ in Life, Mind, and Society
(Frontiers Media, 2021-06-18)
Gastronomía y nutrición en Cataluña
(Arán Ediciones, 2019-06)
[ES] Objetivos: la cultura y los hábitos alimentarios de un territorio configuran su gastronomía y determinan el estado nutricional y de salud de su población. Nos planteamos el objetivo de revisar la alimentación, la ...