Carlos Castrodeza

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Carlos Castrodeza Ruíz de la Cuesta (Madrid, 1945) is a Spanish biologist and philosopher. He teaches Philosophy of Science at Madrid’s Complutense University.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early Years 1.2 Education 1.3 Work 2 Books 2.1 Chapters in collective works (selection) 2.2 Translations 2.3 Articles (selection) 2.4 References

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[edit] Early Years

[edit] Education

[edit] Work

Authority on Darwin and Darwinism, Castrodeza’s thought focuses on bioethical problems from an ethological viewpoint and on scientific problems (epistemological) and ideologies from a naturalistic perspective.

[edit] Books

• Nihilismo y supervivencia: una expresión naturalista de lo inefable, Madrid, Trotta, 2007 (Nihilism and survival: A naturalistic expression of the indescribable) ISBN 978-84-8164-916-1
• Los límites de la historia natural: hacia una nueva biología del conocimiento, Madrid (Tres Cantos), Akal, 2003, (Natural History boundaries: Towards a new biology of knowledge) ISBN 84-460-1881-0
• La marsopa de Heidegger: el lugar de la ciencia en la cultura actual, Madrid, Dykinson, 2003 (Heidegger’s porpoise: The place of science in today’s Western Culture) ISBN 84-9772-022-9
• Razón biológica: la base evolucionista del pensamiento, Madrid, Minerva, 1999 (Biological thinking: The evolutionist roots of thought) ISBN 84-88123-20-5 (Book reviewed in Biology and Philosophy by Andrés Moya, 2001).
• Teoría histórica de la selección natural, Madrid, Alhambra, 1988 (Historical theory of natural selection) ISBN 84-205-1740-2 (Book reviewed in Biology and Philosophy by Thomas Glick, 1992).
• Ortodoxia darwiniana y progreso biológico, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1988 (Darwinian orthodoxy and biological progress) ISBN 84-206-2521-3 (Book reviewed in Biology and Philosophy by Thomas Glick, 1992).

[edit] Chapters in collective works (selection)

• "Los caminos profundos de la biología", El legado filosófico y científico del siglo XX, coord. por Manuel Garrido, Luis Arenas, Luis Valdés, 2005, ISBN 84-376-2272-7, pags. 795-812
• "La condición occidental: ciencia, historia y filosofía", El impacto social de la cultura científica y técnica, 2004, ISBN 84-369-3843-7, pags. 9-18
• "Modernidad y posmodernidad: biología y física", El impacto social de la cultura científica y técnica, 2004, ISBN 84-369-3843-7, pags. 155-164
• "La 'superflua necesidad' de la epistemología evolutiva", La teoría evolucionista del conocimiento, coord. por Jacobo Muñoz, Emilio García García, 1999, ISBN 84-89784-88-4, pags. 83-92

[edit] Translations

• A. H. Lehninger et al., Panorama de la biología contemporánea, selección y comentarios de Roland Hoste, Spanish version from Carlos Castrodeza, 2da. ed, Madrid, Alianza, 1975 ISBN 84-206-2128-5
• Ruse, Michael, La revolución darwinista, Madrid. Alianza Editorial, 1983, ISBN 84-206-2372-5

[edit] Articles (selection)

• "Evolución, historia y ser", Pasajes: Revista de pensamiento contemporáneo, ISSN 1575-2259, Nº. 14, 2004, pags. 23-34
• "Antropogénesis: consideraciones biohermenéuticas", Endoxa: Series Filosóficas, ISSN 1133-5351, Nº 17, 2004, pags. 297-326
• "Una historia natural del bien", Trama y fondo: revista de cultura, ISSN 1137-4802, Nº. 15, 2003, pags. 7-12
• "De la realidad biológica a la biologización de la realidad: la nueva metafísica biológica y el problema del conocimiento", Diálogo filosófico, ISSN 0213-1196, Nº 57, 2003, pags. 379-399
• "La realidad de las dos culturas como base del mito del relativismo cultural (Un enfoque bioantropológico)", Endoxa: Series Filosóficas, ISSN 1133-5351, Nº 12, 2, 2000, pags. 525-560
• "Una perspectiva de los problemas éticos en la investigación biológica: los avatares del evolucionismo", Arbor: Ciencia, pensamiento y cultura, ISSN 0210-1963, Nº 638, 1999 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Ciencia y valores éticos / coord. por Wenceslao J. González Fernández), pags. 265-287
• "El naturalismo biológico de Kuhn en La estructura de las revoluciones científicas", Thémata: Revista de filosofía, ISSN 0212-8365, Nº 20, 1998 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Los filósofos y la biología), pags. 219-228
• "The ultimate epistemological consequences of the Darwinian conception", Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, ISSN 0068-0346, 1996, págs. 153-178
• "De la epistemología popperiana a la epistemología darwinista", Revista de filosofía, ISSN 0034-8244, Nº 8, 1992, pags. 329-356
• "La tácita actualidad del darwinismo", Revista de Occidente, ISSN 0034-8635, Nº 18-19, 1982 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Charles R. Darwin. la evolución y el origen del hombre), pags. 89-104
• "Gregor Johann Mendel: clérigo notable en la Moravia decimonónica", Revista de Occidente, ISSN 0034-8635, Nº 32, 1984 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Gregor Johann Mendel: los orígenes de la genética), pags. 7-26
• "Non-progressive evolution, the red queen hypothesis and the balance of nature", Acta Biotheoretica, ISBN 0001-5342, Nº28, 1979, págs. 11-18
• "On the significance of biological interpretations of mathematical results; comments on a recently discovered evolutionary principle", Methodology and Science, ISSN 0543-6095, Nº 11, 1978, págs. 185-190
• "Evolution, complexity and fitness", Journal of Theoretical Biology, ISSN 0022-5193, Nº 71, 1978, págs. 469-471
• "Tautologies, beliefs and empirical knowledge in biology", The American Naturalist, ISSN 0003-0147, Nº 111, 1977, págs. 393-394

Castrodeza has also published in sites such as Annals of Science or ISIS and has been for a time in the Editorial Board of History and Philosophy of the Biological Sciences(1985-90)

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