Metaphors: Is there a Bridge over Troubled Waters?

Sociedad, raza, Nación y el funcionamiento del organismo humano. Historias alternativas de la Fisiología en América Latina

“…Así, además de considerar a la Fisiología como una zona de frontera donde confluyen e interactúan las Ciencias Naturales y la Medicina, su mismo objeto de estudio la emplaza de forma privilegiada en las pretensiones modernas de entender, organizar y controlar a la sociedad y los cuerpos humanos (24)(25)(26). Esta particular ubicuidad se refleja en un comercio metafórico que problematiza una única dirección a la hora de entender el cuerpo social, el cuerpo económico y el organismo viviente (27)(28). La Fisiología se despliega, entonces, como un conjunto de prácticas políticas encarnadas en sujetos concretos y centros de poder que tienen la capacidad de definir lo normal y lo patológico, lo superior y lo inferior, lo civilizado y lo bárbaro.…”

A Simple Evolutionary Model of Social Differentiation

“…That article convincingly demonstrated that this failure is due not to the concepts these "systems theorists" have adopted from the interdisciplinary discourse on systems theory, but rather to their concepts that originate from biology. This critique points to the fact that the idea of social differentiation as a process has, from Spencer on, always been closely related to biological thought (Wagner 1996(Wagner , 1998Maasen et al 1995). This is clearly the case for who was an alert observer of the synthesis of genetics and evolutionary biology of his time.…”

Come back Marshall, all is forgiven? Complexity, evolution, mathematics and Marshallian exceptionalism

“…If one is to forgive Marshall, it would not extend to his endorsement of eugenics, for example, which he shared with many contemporaries, including leading economists Irving Fisher and John MaynardKeynes. 2 The first known appearance of the terms 'marginal revolution' or 'marginalist revolution' isMyint (1946).3 SeeBlack (1962),Hesse (1966), Johnson (1981,Way (1991),Mirowski (1994),Maasen et al (1995),Keller (2002).…”