A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE APPROACHES OF I.T. FROLOV AND A.A. LYUBISHCHEV TO THE SOLUTION OF THE ORGANIC PURPOSIVENESS PROBLEM (BASED ON WORKS OF 1940-1950s)
Andrey Sergeevitch Lyubavin, Anzhela Petrovna Maltseva
I.N. Ulyanov Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University, 4/5, Lenin sq., Ulyanovsk, 432071, Russia
Keywords: проблема органической целесообразности, телеология, детерминизм, неклассическая рациональность, И.Т. Фролов, А.А. Любищев, the problem of organic purposiveness, teleology, determinism, non-classical rationality, I.T. Frolov, A.A. Lyubishchev
Abstract
The authors’ goal is to describe the contribution of the Soviet biologist A.A. Lyubishchev to the statement and development of the problem of organic purposiveness through comparing his approach with those developed by his contemporaries. The article produces an attempt to carry out a comparative study of the approaches of two Soviet scientists, A.A. Lyubishchev and I.T. Frolov, to teleological issue in biology basing on their crucial works: the article "The Problem of Purposiveness" by Lyubishchev (1946) and the thesis "Determinism and Teleology" by Frolov (1958). The paper explicates conceptual systems used by the scientists, reveals and analyzes features of definitions of determinism and teleology in the history of science, marks out basic principles of epistemological strategies used by two scientists, and conducts a comparative analysis of these principles. The authors conclude that A.A. Lyubishchev (along with I.T. Frolov) was one of the first Russian scientists who proposed to introduce elements of non-classical science into biology.
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