UHK ∙ Students, Research, Employees ∙09/27/2024

Reframing Philosophical Anthropology: Searching for an Anthropological Difference Beyond the Nature/Culture Dichotomy

Project Description

The subject of this interdisciplinary project is a new conceptualization of the problem of anthropological difference in the context of philosophical anthropology. Philosophical anthropology is presented as an independent paradigm that allows for deliberation on humans outside the methodologies of reductive naturalism and social constructivism.

The research has three goals:

  1. reconstruction of the thought of Buytendijk and Plessner relating to the problem of anthropological difference;
  2. a contextualization of the classic program of philosophical anthropology (the Umwelt/Welt distinction) in current hypotheses in developmental comparative psychology (Tomasello), evolutionary anthropology (Henrich), and cultural primatology (de Waal);
  3.  a new assessment of anthropological differences around the disposition to integrate into the cultural-historical environment of human society.

The linking of ontogenetic and phylogenetic perspectives, part of a wider trend in the life sciences (e.g. the extended evolutionary synthesis, biosemiotics), will serve as a theoretical foundation.

Principal investigator

Timeframe

  • 2023–2025

Identification

  • GA23-05374S

Outputs

JAROŠ, F.: Animal Cultures and/or Anthropological Difference? Gatherings in Biosemiotics, Bloemfontein, 18. 6. 2024.

JAROŠ, F.: Portmannova filosofická biologie a antropologie. Čtvrteční seminář Centra teoretických studií, Praha, 4. 4. 2024.

JAROŠ, F.: Anthropological difference in the light of diverse evolutionary narratives. ISHPSSB, Toronto, 14. 7. 2023.

KLOUDA, F.: Smysly jako výrazové dimenze bytí-100 let od Plessnerova projektu „esthesiologie ducha“. Společnost pro Estetiku (Czech Society for Aesthetics), Praha, 29. 6. 2023.

JAROŠ, F.: Fenomén zvířecích kultur – triumf nebo limita naturalismu. Člověk mezi filosofií a antropologií. Hradec Králové, 1. 6. 2023.

PUDIL, M.: Úskalí světatvorby. Smí si člověk stěžovat na neosobní svět? Člověk mezi filosofií a antropologií. Hradec Králové, 1. 6. 2023.

JAROŠ, F., BRENTARI, C.: Organisms as subjects: Jakob von Uexküll and Adolf Portmann on the autonomy of living beings and anthropological difference. Bio-Forschungskolloquium. Kassel, 2. 5. 2023.

JAROŠ, F.: Narativy antropologické diference – nikdy jsme nebyli naturalisty. Páteční seminář Katedry filosofie a dějin přírodních věd. Praha, 24. 2. 2023.

Člověk mezi filosofií a antropologií (31 .5.–2. 6. 2023, FF UHK).

Philosophical Anthropology and Biology: Between History and Evolution (11.–12. 9. 2024, FF UHK).

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