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Evolution is still puzzling: A critical analysis of evolution’s social-humanitarian puzzle
Abstract. This paper tries to show that evolution is an outdated theory in human-social sciences; it has been applied in the past and is now set to become obsolete. This is because human agency, free-will, decision-making and intentionality are predominantly excluded from social-humanitarian evolutionary discourse, which leads to a dehumanizing effect. An updated, non-evolutionary (cf. post-evolutionary) view of human-social change(s) that suits the information-electronic age and ushers in a teleological perspective would offer a timely solution to this problem.
Keywords: philosophy of knowledge, sociobiology, post evolutionism, culturally-sensitive biology, Pitirim Sorokin, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Steve Fuller
Printed reference: Rezaev A.V. Evolution is still puzzling: A critical analysis of evolution’s social-humanitarian puzzle // Vestnik of MSTU. 2008. V. 11, No 4. P. -.
Electronic reference: Rezaev A.V. Evolution is still puzzling: A critical analysis of evolution’s social-humanitarian puzzle // Vestnik of MSTU. 2008. V. 11, No 4. P. -. URL: http://vestnik.mstu.edu.ru/v11_4_n33/articles/02_rezaev.pdf.
