eprintid: 16727
rev_number: 18
eprint_status: archive
userid: 46
dir: disk0/00/01/67/27
datestamp: 2014-04-11 09:38:13
lastmod: 2024-03-09 09:59:28
status_changed: 2014-04-11 09:38:13
type: article
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creators_name: Álvarez-Vázquez, Javier Y.
title: The Processual Form of Thinking. A New Perspective from Developmental Philosophy
subjects: ddc-100
divisions: i-70100
keywords: enarrativity, evolution of thought, history of science, process philosophy, theory of culture
cterms_swd: A. N. Whitehead
cterms_swd: J. Piaget
cterms_swd: Theory of Knowledge
cterms_swd: Philosophy of Science
cterms_swd: Explanation
abstract: Many contemporary theories of human cognition focus on the biochemical mechanisms that lie beneath the mind’s operations, while neglecting the historical and developmental aspects of the human mind. This article argues (1) that a processual form of thinking has been developing since the Modern Era. Furthermore, it maintains (2) that this particular form of thinking is intrinsically connected with the historical phenomenon of the scientific revolution. The paper studies Günter Dux’s innovative historico-genetic approach to the development of thought in historical process. It also analyses the processual form of thinking under specific conceptual aspects of Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy of organism. The present study also reveals (3) the connection between the developmental and the historical aspects of the evolution of thought. Overall, the study found (4) that there is an anthropological cognitive mechanism behind the historical forms of thought usually related to the elaborated figure of explanation.
date: 2014-03
publisher: Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF)
id_scheme: DOI
ppn_swb: 1656147157
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-167271
language: eng
bibsort: ALVAREZVAZTHEPROCESS201403
full_text_status: public
publication: GSTF Journal of General Philosophy (JPhilo)
volume: 1
number: 1
place_of_pub: Singapore
pagerange: 40-49
issn: 2335-6774
citation:   Álvarez-Vázquez, Javier Y.  (2014) The Processual Form of Thinking. A New Perspective from Developmental Philosophy.  GSTF Journal of General Philosophy (JPhilo), 1 (1).  pp. 40-49.  ISSN 2335-6774     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/16727/1/%C3%81lvarez-V%C3%A1zquez%282014%29JPhilo%20Vol.1%20No.1.pdf