Description du projet
Le corps comme modèle d’analogie pour comprendre la terre et l’environnement
L’une des questions philosophiques les plus pressantes et les plus déroutantes a trait à la juste manière d’expliquer la structure du monde environnant. En réévaluant la relation entre la biomédecine et la philosophie naturelle antiques, le projet GEOANATOMY, financé par l’UE, vise à déterminer l’impact de la médecine grecque et romaine antique sur les explications causales des phénomènes météorologiques et géologiques proposées par Aristote, Lucrèce et Sénèque. Le projet fera la lumière sur cet amalgame de collaborations scientifiques interdisciplinaires, ce qui permettra de sensibiliser le monde universitaire et le grand public aux questions relatives à la protoécologie et à la protection de l’environnement.
Objectif
One of the most ancient, still puzzling, philosophical questions concerns how one should explain the structure of the surrounding world while being herself part of it. Believing that all bodies are part of the cosmos in the sense that they are governed by the same causal principles, ancient scientists communicated their observations by using analogy. Evidence of the various forms of communicative analogical scientific exposition is traditionally taken to reveal that medicine and natural science, though sharing a common interest in accounting for natural phenomena, manifest a keen eagerness to delimit their boundaries. There is, however, a largely underexplored type of analogical reasoning in which these disciplines are seen to create a trans-boundary scientific mixture, enabling us to speak of cross-disciplinary influence and assimilation. This project aims to determine the impact of ancient Greek and Roman medicine on the causal explanations of meteorological and geological phenomena offered by Aristotle (4th c. BCE), Lucretius (1st c. BCE) and Seneca (1st c. CE) by investigating the course of reasoning within which such explanations are embedded, what I call ‘the medical argument’. An analysis of this single, unified cross-disciplinary argumentative system will ultimately lead to a redefinition of our present historical knowledge about the beginnings of modern environmental conscience and consciousness. As its strategic intent, GEOANATOMY encompasses the following set of specific goals: (a) To reassess the relationship between ancient biomedicine and natural philosophy, two disciplines which are traditionally thought to have had clearly demarcated boundaries; (b) To bring to light for the first time and clearly identify the ‘fruit’ of this cross-boundary scientific collaborative amalgam; and (c) To advance awareness in both the academic world and the wider public of issues concerning proto-ecology and care for the environment.
Champ scientifique (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classe les projets avec EuroSciVoc, une taxonomie multilingue des domaines scientifiques, grâce à un processus semi-automatique basé sur des techniques TLN. Voir: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
- sciences naturelles
- sciences agricolesagriculture, sylviculture et pêcheagriculturehorticulturefruiticulture
- lettresphilosophie, éthique et religionphilosophie
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(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) H2020-MSCA-IF-2019
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinateur
3584 CS Utrecht
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