Claude Bernard y el lugar de la fisiología en un mundo físicamente determinado
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Caponi, Gustavo [1]
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[1] Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Brasil
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- Localización: Ludus vitalis: revista de filosofía de las ciencias de la vida = journal of philosophy of life sciences = revue de philosophie des sciences de la vie, ISSN 1133-5165, Vol. 23, Nº. 44, 2015, págs. 43-68
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
C. Bernard and the place of physiology in a physically determined world.In the Introduction to study of experimental medicine we can find references to the role of laws in the causal explanations of physiology phenomena that seem to be anticipations of the nomological-deductive model of explanation. Even so, it is also possible to read these paragraphs from a perspective that link them to the theoretical options that Bernard was proposing and developing in his physiological research. He was reinforcing there his contestation to Vitalism inasmuch it was intrinsic to the program of experimental physiology. The existence of these physiological laws ensured that the experimental route was feasible for the new discipline, and its discovery showed the compatibility between the knowledge produced by physiology and the presuppositions of what today we would characterize as physicalist ontology.
