{"id":9804,"date":"2012-04-02T13:56:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T13:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/02\/wittgenstein-on-darwin\/"},"modified":"2012-04-02T13:56:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T13:56:58","slug":"wittgenstein-on-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/02\/wittgenstein-on-darwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Wittgenstein on Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing I definitely applaud in Wittgenstein is his opposition to scientism.   M. O'C. Drury in Conversations with Wittgenstein<\/em>, ed. Rush Rhees (Oxford, 1984), pp. 160-161:<\/span><\/p>\n

     One day, walking in the Zoological Gardens, we admired the immense<\/span>
     variety of flowers, shrubs, trees, and the similar multiplicity of<\/span>
     birds, reptiles, animals.<\/span><\/p>\n

     WITTGENSTEIN: I have always thought that Darwin was wrong: his<\/span>
     theory does not account for all the variety of species. It hasn't<\/span>
     the necessary multiplicity. Nowadays some people are fond of saying<\/span>
     that at last evolution has produced a species that is able to<\/span>
     understand the whole process which gave it birth. Now that you<\/span>
     can't say.<\/span><\/p>\n

     DRURY: You could say that now there has evolved a strange animal<\/span>
     that collects other animals and puts them in gardens. But you can't<\/span>
     bring the concepts of knowledge and understanding into this series.<\/span>
     They are different categories entirely.<\/span><\/p>\n

     WITTGENSTEIN: Yes, you could put it that way.<\/span><\/p>\n

To imagine that evolutionary theory could cast light on the concepts of knowledge and understanding involves a massive metabasis eis allo genos<\/em>, to use a a favorite Greek phrase of Kierkegaard.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One thing I definitely applaud in Wittgenstein is his opposition to scientism.   M. O'C. Drury in Conversations with Wittgenstein, ed. Rush Rhees (Oxford, 1984), pp. 160-161:      One day, walking in the Zoological Gardens, we admired the immense     variety of flowers, shrubs, trees, and the similar multiplicity of     birds, reptiles, animals.      WITTGENSTEIN: I have … Continue reading “Wittgenstein on Darwin”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258,275],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darwinism-and-design","category-wittgenstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}