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The Return of Experience: Reinterpreting Dewey for Contemporary Evolutionary Biology (2013)

Carlson, Charles Royal (Author)

American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly
Volume: 87
Pages: 267--284

DOI: 10.5840/acpq201387221

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Science education and teaching Philosophy of science Genetics Evolution Evolutionary developmental biology 19th century Dewey, John Darwin, Charles Robert

John Dewey provides a philosophy of nature riven with questions of contexted-function, education, ecological balance, and in general an analysis of nature that understands that fixity won't work, in the pragmatist sense of work, and consequently, that survival necessitates change. In light of the recent flood of evidence showing that epigenetic factors may have a greater role in evolution than previously thought, a re-envisioning of Dewey's philosophy of nature is warranted. Dewey's emphasis on the process of the moving parts, rather than the identity of the parts themselves, provides a contrasting view that largely avoids many of the problems of a gene-centric viewpoint and offers an interpretation of Darwin's evolutionary theory that emphasizes the instrumental factor of experience in a way that is compatible with the findings of epigenetics.

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