Reduction, supervenience, emergence and naturalistic truthreductionism, holism and the description of human nature

Referencias bibliográficas

• See for example Pragmatic Naturalism and Realism, edited by John R. Shook (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2003).
• The present state of affairs is well represented in The Re-Emergence of Emergence, edited by P. Clayton and P. Davies (Oxford, Oxford Universoty Press, 2006).
• See also 'Eliminating the mystery from the concept of emergence' by Brian R. Johnson. Biology and Philosophy, 25 (2010): 843-9.
• See in this respect his The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism and Environment (Harvard University Press, 2000).
• See for instance the classic paper by S. J. GOULD and R. C. LEWONTIN (1979), «The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: A critique of the adaptationist programme», Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 205 (1161): 581-598. (Pubitemid 10248042)
• See for example one of Lewontin's classics Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA (New York: Harper Collins, 1993).
• A bed companion to Dawkins in this area is the well known chemist Peter Atkins (see, for example, his relatively recent Four Laws that Drive the Universe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007),
• also should be mentioned in this respect the physicist Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg (see his very recent Lake Views: This World and the Universe, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010)
• and the same goes for the philosopher of science devotee of Dawkins Daniel Dennett and his Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Simon & Schuster, 1996).
• Lewontin's marxist attitude is well attuned to the tenets of humanistic philosophy of biology typified for instance by Heidegger's heir Hans Jonas (see for instance his Organismus und Freiheit. Ansätze zu einer philosophischen Biologie, Gottingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 1973).
• In fact Lewontin's main scientific mentor the Russian born and educated Theodosius Donzhansky has a similar attitude although from a Christian perspective (see his The Biology of Ultimate Concern, New York: New American Library, 1967).
• See D. Butler's negative assessment in his Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005)
• and R. RICHARDSON, Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007).
• G. MARCUS, The Birth of the Mind: How a tiny number of genes creates the complexities of human thought (New York: Basic Books, 2004).
• See C. CASTRODEZA, La Darwinizacion del Mundo (Barcelona: Herder, 2009).