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ArticleTheory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften2023

Evolution by habit: Peirce, Lamarck, and teleology in biology.

Jana Švorcová, Ľudmila Lacková, Eliška Fulínová

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Article in Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Jana ŠvorcováDepartment of Philosophy and History of Science, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. svorcova@natur.cuni.cz.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2022-0815
Ľudmila LackováDepartment of General Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy, Palacký University in Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9852-4280
Eliška FulínováCentre for Theoretical Study, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9147-1796

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Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports IGA_FF_2023_044Grantová Agentura České Republiky 20-16633S
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In our paper, we analyse the relationship of the evolutionary philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce to Lamarckian natural philosophy and link it to concepts of teleology, focusing especially on Aristotelian and Peircean conceptions of the final cause. Peirce commented on evolution in many of his writings, especially in 1891-1893 in essays such as 'Evolutionary Love' (1893) or 'Man's Glassy Essence' (1892). After introducing the three types of evolution distinguished by Peirce, we compare Peirce's and Lamarck's views on evolution, habit, and teleology. From a synthesis of concepts formulated by Peirce, Aristotle, nineteenth-century neo-Lamarckians, and current knowledge regarding epigenetics, there should emerge our own concept of biological teleology unburdened by panpsychism, subjective intentions, or determinism. We believe it could be a concept acceptable to current biology.

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Epigenesis, GeneticPhilosophyBiological EvolutionBiologyHabitsAristotleEpigeneticsHabitLamarckPeirceTeleology

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