Darwinismus a portmannismus: střetnutí nesouměřitelných biologických paradigmat?

• Authors: Jaros Filip

Title variants

EN

DARWINISM AND PORTMANNISM: THE CLASH OF INCOMPARABLE BIOLOGICAL PARADIGMS?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article focuses on the possibility of the cultivation of biology inspired by the work of biologist A. Portmann. Insight into the problem is to some extent limited to the Czech language area, where Portmann's ideas are relatively well established. The paper analyses the causes of latent tension between so-called Darwinists and Portmannists. There are a lot of misunderstandings at this point. First of all, it must be considered that Portmann didn't disregard Darwin's theory. The aim of the article is to show that Portmann's ideas transcend a traditional Darwinian reduction of a life form to adaptive function. Divergence of these schools of thought comes from different opinions on the nature of science. The paper shows how dissimilarities of aims and means of biological exploration lead to different conclusions about living creatures. For research growing out of Portmann's ideas, it is necessary not to consider Darwinism as a competitor, but as a thought-provoking partner for a dialogue.

Keywords

EN

DARWINISM; PARADIGM; PORTMANN; SELECTION; TESTABILITY OF THEORIES

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teorie vědy (Theory of Science)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 32
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 301-318
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jaros Filip

• Filip Jaros, Prirodovedecka fakulta Univerzity Karlovy v Praze, Vinicna 7, 128 44 Praha, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11CZAAAA095224