MAGISTER LUDI: GEORGES CANGUILHEM: BLOG DE FILOSOFÍA DE CAYETANO ACUÑA.

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GEORGES CANGUILHEM: BLOG DE FILOSOFÍA DE CAYETANO ACUÑA.

GEORGES CANGUILHEM

Doce años después de su famoso Ensayo sobre algunos problemas relacionados con lo normal y lo patológico (1943), el filósofo Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995) publicó un estudio de la longitud de un libro sobre la historia de un solo concepto biológico.

En Francia, su Formación del concepto reflejo en los siglos XVII y XVIII (1955) contribuyó significativamente a definir el "estilo francés" de escribir sobre la historia de la ciencia. Fuera de Francia, el libro pasó desapercibido. Este artículo vuelve a leer el estudio de Canguilhem sobre el concepto reflejo con respecto a sus implicaciones historiográficas y epistemológicas.

Canguilhem define los conceptos como entidades complejas y dinámicas que combinan términos, definiciones y fenómenos. Como consecuencia, la historiografía de la ciencia se convierte en una tarea bastante compleja. Debe tener en cuenta los aspectos textuales y contextuales que se desarrollan independientemente de los autores individuales.

Además, Canguilhem enfatiza la conexión entre las actividades conceptuales y otras funciones de los individuos orgánicos en sus respectivos entornos. Como resultado, los conceptos biológicos se vinculan a una biología del pensamiento conceptual, el razonamiento analógico y la práctica tecnológica.

El artículo sostiene que esta estructura aparentemente circular es una característica importante en el enfoque filosófico de Canguilhem sobre la historia de las ciencias biológicas.

Twelve years after his famous Essay on Some Problems Concerning the Normal and the Pathological (1943), the philosopher Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995) published a book-length study on the history of a single biological concept. Within France, his Formation of the Reflex Concept in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1955) contributed significantly to defining the "French style" of writing on the history of science. Outside of France, the book passed largely unnoticed.

This paper re-reads Canguilhem's study of the reflex concept with respect to its historiographical and epistemological implications. Canguilhem defines concepts as complex and dynamic entities combining terms, definitions, and phenomena. As a consequence, the historiography of science becomes a rather complex task.

It has to take into account textual and contextual aspects that develop independently of individual authors. In addition, Canguilhem stresses the connection between conceptual activities and other functions of organic individuals in their respective environments.

As a result, biological concepts become tied to the biology of conceptual thinking, analogical reasoning, and technological practice. The paper argues that this seemingly circular structure is a major feature in Canguilhem's philosophical approach to the history of the biological sciences.

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