Ontological Naturalism and the Role of Supervenience in Biological Evolution
Abstract
To overcome the traditional opposition between the methodological and the ontological naturalism, in the paper the notion of supervenience is proposed as an explanatory category which facilitates developing a version of nonreductionist emergentism. This category helps to understand the so called teleonomy (resp. quasi-finality) studied in modern biology and eliminates the traditional opposition between the causal and the teleological interpretation of nature. Analytical distinctions, dependent on supervenient aspects of nature, facilitate new interpretive patterns for biological evolution and make groundless many simplified patterns accepted in philosophical interpretation of evolutionism.
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