Ecología y pensamiento : Un análisis desde la postura de Paul Feyerabend

En este trabajo analizaremos, en primer lugar, la postura de Paul Feyerabend en torno a la problemática ecológica y su vinculación con la ecología política y la ciencia, tomando principalmente los artículos Cuan equivocada es la ecología de los filósofos y Cómo defender a la sociedad de la ciencia, entre otros textos. En segundo lugar, realizaremos una proyección más amplia de la propuesta a fin de: (1) conectar ecología científica y ecología política, (2) ver el papel que la ciencia y la sociedad tienen respecto a esta problemática, y (3) cuál es la dificultad específica que podemos señalar, desde la misma postura del autor, en sus derivaciones academicistas del debate sobre ecología y sociedad, en la línea de que no son sólo son debates estériles -como el mismo Feyerabend sostiene- sino que, muchas veces, se transforman en intervenciones perniciosas. A modo de breve conclusión, señalaremos el modo en que, por un lado, la filosofía produce debates meramente abstractos y cómo la filosofía y la ciencia - mediante sus expertos- legitiman y enmascaran los modos de producción y explotación propios del sistema capitalista en el caso particular del campo de la ecología política

Ecología y pensamiento : Un análisis desde la postura de Paul Feyerabend

En este trabajo analizaremos, en primer lugar, la postura de Paul Feyerabend en torno a la problemática ecológica y su vinculación con la ecología política y la ciencia, tomando principalmente los artículos Cuan equivocada es la ecología de los filósofos y Cómo defender a la sociedad de la ciencia, entre otros textos. En segundo lugar, realizaremos una proyección más amplia de la propuesta a fin de: (1) conectar ecología científica y ecología política, (2) ver el papel que la ciencia y la sociedad tienen respecto a esta problemática, y (3) cuál es la dificultad específica que podemos señalar, desde la misma postura del autor, en sus derivaciones academicistas del debate sobre ecología y sociedad, en la línea de que no son sólo son debates estériles -como el mismo Feyerabend sostiene- sino que, muchas veces, se transforman en intervenciones perniciosas. A modo de breve conclusión, señalaremos el modo en que, por un lado, la filosofía produce debates meramente abstractos y cómo la filosofía y la ciencia - mediante sus expertos- legitiman y enmascaran los modos de producción y explotación propios del sistema capitalista en el caso particular del campo de la ecología política

Ecología y pensamiento : Un análisis desde la postura de Paul Feyerabend

En este trabajo analizaremos, en primer lugar, la postura de Paul Feyerabend en torno a la problemática ecológica y su vinculación con la ecología política y la ciencia, tomando principalmente los artículos Cuan equivocada es la ecología de los filósofos y Cómo defender a la sociedad de la ciencia, entre otros textos. En segundo lugar, realizaremos una proyección más amplia de la propuesta a fin de: (1) conectar ecología científica y ecología política, (2) ver el papel que la ciencia y la sociedad tienen respecto a esta problemática, y (3) cuál es la dificultad específica que podemos señalar, desde la misma postura del autor, en sus derivaciones academicistas del debate sobre ecología y sociedad, en la línea de que no son sólo son debates estériles -como el mismo Feyerabend sostiene- sino que, muchas veces, se transforman en intervenciones perniciosas. A modo de breve conclusión, señalaremos el modo en que, por un lado, la filosofía produce debates meramente abstractos y cómo la filosofía y la ciencia - mediante sus expertos- legitiman y enmascaran los modos de producción y explotación propios del sistema capitalista en el caso particular del campo de la ecología política

The rise of Western rationalism: Paul Feyerabend’s story

I summarise certain aspects of Paul Feyerabend’s account of the development of Western rationalism, show the ways in which that account is supposed to run up against an alternative, that of Karl Popper, and then try to give a preliminary comparison of the two. My interest is primarily in whether what Feyerabend called his ‘story’ constitutes a possible history of our epistemic concepts and their trajectory. I express some grave reservations about that story, and about Feyerabend’s framework, finding Popper’s views less problematic here. However, I also suggest that one important aspect of Feyerabend’s material, his treatment of religious belief, can be given an interpretation which makes it tenable, and perhaps preferable to a Popperian approach.

Popper and his Commentators on the Discovery of Neptune: a close shave for the Law of Gravitation?

Knowledge of residual perturbations in the orbit of Uranus in the early 1840s did not lead to the refutation of Newton's law of gravitation but instead to the discovery of Neptune in 1846. Karl Popper asserts that this case is atypical of science and that the law of gravitation was at least prima facie falsified by these perturbations. I argue that these assertions are the product of a false, a priori methodological position I call, 'Weak Popperian Falsificationism' (WPF). Further, on the evidence the law was not prima facie false and was not generally considered so by astronomers at the time. Many of Popper's commentators (Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend and others) presuppose WPF and their views on this case and its implications for scientific rationality and method suffer from this same defect.

Repeated blood pressure measurements in a sample of Swedish twins: heritabilities and associations with polymorphisms in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system Iliadou, Anastasia, Lichtenstein, Paul, Morgenstern, Ralf, Forsberg, Lena, Svensson, Richard, de Faire, Ulf, Martin, Nicholas, Pedersen, Nancy

Background Twin and family studies have shown that genetic effects explain a relatively high amount of the phenotypic variation in blood pressure. However, many studies have not been able to replicate findings of association between specific polymorphisms and diastolic and systolic blood pressure. Methods In a structural equation-modelling framework the authors investigated longitudinal changes in repeated measures of blood pressures in a sample of 298 like-sexed twin pairs from the population-based Swedish Twin Registry. Also examined was the association between blood pressure and polymorphisms in the angiotensin-I converting enzyme and the angiotensin 11 receptor type 1 with the 'Fulker' test Both linkage and association were tested simultaneously revealing whether the polymorphism is a Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) or in linkage disequilibrium with the QTL. Results Genetic influences explained up to 46% of the phenotypic variance in diastolic and 63% of the phenotypic variance in systolic blood pressure. Genetic influences were stable over time and contributed up to 78% of the phenotypic correlation in both diastolic and systolic blood pressure. Non-shared environmental effects were characterised by time specific influences and little transmission from one time point to the next. There was no significant linkage and association between the polymorphisms and blood pressure. Conclusions There is a considerable genetic stability in both diastolic and systolic blood pressure for a 6-year period of time in adult life. Non-shared environmental influences have a small long-term effect Although associations with the polymorphisms could not be replicated, results should be interpreted with caution due to power considerations. (C) 2002 Lippincott Williams Wilkins.

A Tradução reinventada em The Invention of Solitude de Paul Auster

A leitura da obra de Paul Auster, desde os primeiros poemas e ensaios até à mais recente ficção, revela uma constante reflexão metalinguística e metaficcional sobre o trabalho da escrita. Auster equaciona o problema da escrita enquanto acto, permitindo ao leitor acompanhar e participar desse processo de construção. A narrativa e a linguagem intelectualizam-se, tornam-se conscientes, o que possibilita uma aproximação privilegiada ao ensino da tradução de textos literários através da própria literatura. The Invention of Solitude é como uma arte poética inspirada na experiência efectiva do sujeito, enquanto escritor e tradutor. Podemos considerá-lo um romance-manifesto em duas partes (Portrait of an Invisible Man e The Book of Memory), com especial incidência na exploração analítica da cena da escrita, utilizando a personagem-escritor e suas vivências como cobaia neste processo de auto e heteroconhecimento. A partir da análise aplicada de The Invention of Solitude, este artigo irá remeter também para os ensaios de Ernest Gellner sobre Wittgenstein em Language and Solitude, entre outros escritores que se debruçaram igualmente sobre questões ligadas à tradução literária, como Dryden, Goethe, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Ortega y Gasset e Octávio Paz.

Paul Auster and the music of change: building new stories

In the work of Paul Auster (Newark, 1947 - ), we find two main themes: the sense of loss and existential drift and the loneliness of the individual fully committed to the work of writing, as if he had been confined to the book that commands his life. However, this second theme is clearly the dominant one because the character's space of solitude may include its own wandering, because this wandering is also often performed inside the four walls of a room, just like it is narrated inside the space of the page and the book. Both in his poetry, essays and fiction, Auster seems to face the work of writing as an actual physical effort of effective construction, as if the words that are aligned in the poem-text were stones to place in a row when building a wall or some other structure in stone.

O casaco dourado de Jean Paul Gaultier (n.1952-): conservação de alta costura (MUDE - Colecção Francisco Capelo)

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Conservação e Restauro