Title: L'impronta dell'inutilità. Dalla teleologia di Aristotele alle genealogie di Darwin
Description: Un contributo alla riconfigurazione storiografica e concettuale della rivoluzione evoluzionistica alla luce della tenuta plurisecolare della tradizione biologica aristotelica. La svolta di Darwin si delinea quale puntuale rovesciamento dell'impianto fissista, essenzialista e teleologico coniato da Aristotele, ancora dominante nel Seicento di Harvey e di Ray, nonostante Galileo, e poi egemone fino a Linneo e Cuvier. Svolta esemplificata dall'analisi morfologica delle parti inutili, come gli occhi ciechi della talpa, tematizzate già da Aristotele, e che Darwin usò quale grimaldello per scardinare il ricorso sistematico alle cause finali. Antica eredità teleologica presente in varie forme nel concetto di selezione naturale, ma ormai calata entro una griglia eminentemente storica e aperta alla casualità. 

The book aims to offer a contribution to the historiographical and conceptual reconfiguration of the evolutionary revolution in the light of the centuries-old tenets of the Aristotelian biological tradition. Darwin’s breakthrough constitutes a thorough overturning of the fixist, essentialist and teleological framework created by Aristotle, a framework still dominant in the 17th Century world of Harvey and Ray, as well as Galileo, and then hegemonic until Linnaeus and Cuvier. This change is exemplified in the morphological analysis of useless parts, such as the sightless eyes of moles, already discussed by Aristotle, and which Darwin used almost like a crowbar to unhinge the systematic recourse to final causes. This is an ancient teleological heritage present in various forms in the concept of natural selection, but by then confined within an eminently historical framework open to randomness.
Subjects: Filosofía, Epistemology, Ancient Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy, History of Ideas, Aristotle, Biología, Science, Philosophy of Biology, Aristóteles, Aristotelianism, History of Western Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Biology, Evolution - Theory and, Linneo, Filosofia Della Scienza, Aristotele., Contemporary Aristotelianism, Aristotle's Metaphysics, Aristotle's Commentators, Aristoteles, Filosofía de la Ciencia, Antike Philosophie, Philosophie Des Sciences, Histoire de la philosophie, Philosophie, Epistémologie et Histoire Des Sciences, Evolution, Carl Linnaeus, History and Philosphy of Science, Filosofia De La Biologia, History of Biology and Evolutionary Theory, - History and philosophy of Science (more especially evolutionary biology), History and Philosophy of Biology and Ecology, History of Evolutionary Biology, History of Biology (History), History of Biological Sciences, Natural Selection, Aristotle's Teleology, Darwinian Teleology, Teleology, Alberto Magno Teoria, William Paley, Erasmus Darwin, History of Darwinism, Charles Darwin, Natural Theology, William Harvey, Stephen Jay Gould, Storia Della Biologia, Biologia, Biología de Aristóteles, Aristotele, Aristotle's Parva Naturalia, Ancient Greek Philosophy / Aristotle, Galileo Galilei, Lamarck, Georges Cuvier, Classics, Storia della Filosofia, Storia Della Scienza, Darwinism, History of Mathematics, Biology, History of Philosophy, Philosophy Of Mathematics, History Of Modern Philosophy, History of Science, Darwin, Thomas S. Kuhn, Lamarckism, Life History Evolution, Aristotle's philosophy of biology, Life Sciences, Philosophy Of Science, History of Biology, Philosophy, Evolutionary Biology, Evolution (Biology), History