Article ID: CBB001201756

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

unapi

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.

...More
Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB001201756/

Similar Citations

Article Hull, David L.; (2011)
Defining Darwinism (/isis/citation/CBB001023980/)

Article Kampourakis, Kostas; (2013)
Mendel and the Path to Genetics: Portraying Science as a Social Process (/isis/citation/CBB001252323/)

Book Ruse, Michael; Richards, Robert J.; (2008)
The Cambridge Companion to the Origin of Species (/isis/citation/CBB000951129/)

Book Brown, William; Fabian, Andrew C.; (2010)
Darwin (/isis/citation/CBB001023129/)

Article Ambrose, C. T.; (2010)
Darwin's Historical Sketch---An American Predecessor: C. S. Rafinesque (/isis/citation/CBB001031431/)

Book Henry M. Cowles; (2020)
The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey (/isis/citation/CBB285563664/)

Article Gaffney, Jennifer A.; (2013)
Evolution, Poetry, and Growth: Dewey's Romantic Appropriation of the Darwinian Worldview (/isis/citation/CBB001201757/)

Article Giuliano Pancaldi; (2019)
Darwin’s Technology of Life (/isis/citation/CBB081095005/)

Book Reznick, David N.; (2009)
The Origin Then and Now: An Interpretive Guide to the Origin of Species (/isis/citation/CBB001020595/)

Chapter Ruse, Michael; (2010)
Evolution and the Idea of Social Progress (/isis/citation/CBB001020305/)

Book Engels, Eve-Marie; (2009)
Charles Darwin und seine Wirkung (/isis/citation/CBB001035152/)

Article Alter, Stephen G.; (2007)
Darwin's Artificial Selection Analogy and the Generic Character of “Phyletic” Evolution (/isis/citation/CBB000831352/)

Article Ruse, Michael; (2005)
Was There a Darwinian Revolution? (/isis/citation/CBB000933662/)

Book Engels, Eve-Marie; Glick, Thomas F.; (2008)
The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe (/isis/citation/CBB001022466/)

Article Duedahl, Poul; (2009)
Læst og påskrevet---Om racebegrebet hos Darwin (/isis/citation/CBB001022216/)

Article Deichmann, Ute; (2010)
Gemmules and Elements: On Darwin's and Mendel's Concepts and Methods in Heredity (/isis/citation/CBB001230066/)

Article Lorenzano, Pablo; (2011)
What Would Have Happened If Darwin Had Known Mendel (or Mendel's Work)? (/isis/citation/CBB001034540/)

Book Catalá-Gorgues, Jesús I.; Navarro-Brotons, Victor; (2010)
Darwin: el seu temps, la seua obra, la seua influencia (/isis/citation/CBB001021868/)

Book Ruse, Michael; Travis, Joseph; (2009)
Evolution: The First Four Billion Years (/isis/citation/CBB001232307/)

Authors & Contributors
Ruse, Michael
Engels, Eve-Marie
Varno, Theodore James
Travis, Joseph
Richards, Robert John
Reznick, David N.
Concepts
Evolution
Genetics
Darwinism
Natural selection
Biology
Philosophy of science
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Europe
Germany
Institutions
United States. Dept. of Agriculture
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment