Von Baer, the intensification of uniqueness, and historical explanation.
Explanation
Historical explanation
Ontogeny
Phylogeny
Recapitulation
Walter Garstang
von Baer’s laws
Journal
History and philosophy of the life sciences
ISSN: 1742-6316
Titre abrégé: Hist Philos Life Sci
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 8003052
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
22 Nov 2021
22 Nov 2021
Historique:
received:
01
06
2021
accepted:
18
10
2021
entrez:
22
11
2021
pubmed:
23
11
2021
medline:
25
11
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
This paper aims to uncover the explanatory profile of an idealized version of Karl Ernst von Baer's notion of individuation, wherein the special develops from the general. First, because such sequences can only be exemplified by a multiplicity of causally-related events, they should be seen as the topics of historical why-questions, rather than initial condition why-questions. Second, because historical why-questions concern the diachronic unity or genidentity of the events under consideration, I argue that the von Baerian pattern elicits a distinctive response to such questions, wherein we are inclined to simultaneously affirm and reject the temporal unity of these events. I buttress this claim by considering non-biological expressions of the von Baerian principle, drawn from institutional history and literature. In the second half of the paper, I consider the implications of my findings for ontogenetic and phylogenetic sequences. I argue that the explanatory profile of von Baer's principle neatly describes the distinctive speciation events that characterize deep metazoan phylogeny, as described by Stuart Newman. I also argue that parallel considerations should move us to accept a sense in which ontogenetic stages are not diachronically unified.
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pubmed: 34807328
doi: 10.1007/s40656-021-00473-9
pii: 10.1007/s40656-021-00473-9
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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