Texts, articles and reviews under label: 'Philosophy of nature'.
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Teleology and natural selection in the discussion on intentionality
summary: The possibilities of naturalizing intentionality are currently being debated. Ruth Garrett Millikan's hypothesis for explaining the normativity of the intentional is examined, consisting of a theory of function based on natural selection, and her view of teleology is examined.
Author: Gloria Balderas
Can biology be reduced to physics? An approach from the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce.
summary: Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) provides a semiotic approach to reality, including biological reality, which adds to other recent concepts. The coding of the amino acid selenocysteine in a genetic code that does not contemplate it is an example of the semiotic nature of molecular processes.
Author: Miquel Ramón Fuentes
The stones will cry out. Chance and necessity in mineral evolution
summary: Mineral evolution depends on physical, chemical, and biological processes, which produce a unique mineralogy for each planet, depending on chance and chemical laws. They represent a complex system in evolution, which macroscopic physical laws do not seem to describe appropriately.
Author: José Ramón Isasi
Thomistic Philosophy in the face of evolution - 160 years of Evolution
summaryThe scholars of St. Thomas have reflected on Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, with emphasis on the origin of living species. It reviews the work of modern Thomists, who have always been open to dialogue with this thesis .
Author: Ignacio Silva
Physics and awe in the face of nature
summaryReflection on the role of astonishment before nature as a bridge between the physicist's work and the philosophical reflection on the natural world, which has in physics a description of the world from which to start.
Author: Javier Sánchez Cañizares
summaryAristotelian physics, reflection in search of truth, led to metaphysics. Modern science has separated from it. Science should be the empirical foundation of philosophical reflection on reality, a path outlined by Artigas.
Author: Prof. Juan Arana Cañedo-Argüelles
Time Reborn. From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
summary: review of Smolin Lee, Time Reborn. From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe. The work reviews physical theories, and relates them to a philosophical reflection on the validity of science.
Author: Javier Sánchez Cañizares