Friday, March 14 at 13:00 in Centro Carlos Santamaria Room 3. The talk will be hybrid. If you want to participate, please contact m.aste.tb2@gmail.com

Over the decades, organismalism has received little historical consideration. Recently, this trend has been inverted, sparking an explosion of organismal studies. However, the latter have been prone to a central limitation: their exclusive and all-engulfing emphasis on synthesizing and analyzing the particularities of specific biological principles. Admittedly, several valuable historical studies have amended this bias, revealing that organismalism was a bio-theoretical and not exclusively biological movement. In this talk, I will elaborate on these ideas by shedding light on the connections between organismalism and pragmatism. I will argue that there is a common thread linking them that revolves around the idea of “experience”. This concept allowed the latter to articulate their respective biological and philosophical intuitions, positioning themselves as “third ways” to mechanicism/vitalism and realism/idealism, respectively. I will illustrate how this concept was gradually shaped through cross-pollination between particular proto-organismal (E. D. Montgomery and J. S. Haldane) and pragmatist authors (J. Dewey).