Relationality versus Biologicism
Beyond Deterministic and Essentialist Biology
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Propiedades inherentes, intrínsecas y extrínsecas, construcción social, complejidad, simbiosis, epigenética, individualidad, autonomía.Abstract
The metaphysics of science often contrasts the biological with the social and presents the biological as a domain marked by determinism and essentialism. Although the biology-social construction dichotomy has made it possible to denounce abuses due to harmful categorizations legitimized and based on a false biological essentialism, the metaphysics of social construction runs the risk of trivializing and dematerializing biology. This article seeks to demonstrate that contemporary biology cannot be justified in sustaining deterministic or essentialist discourses because of its complexity, which can be understood in the form of inherent relational properties of living beings.
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