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SCHELLEC · Schelling’s philosophy of nature and the environmental challenge

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Период: 2022-10-01 → 2024-09-30
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Schelling’s philosophy of nature and the environmental challenge

The project “Schelling’s Philosophy of Nature and the Environmental Challenge” (Schellec) foregrounds the contemporary stakes of the philosophy of nature worked out by the German philosopher Friedrich Schelling at the turn of the 19th century. Schelling is perhaps the main figure of a research program called 'Naturphilosophie', which was highly influential from the 1790s to the 1830s. Key to this movement was the attempt to conceive of nature not only as an object of cognition but also as a subject with a certain degree of spontaneity and autonomy. Nature, from this perspective, is the bearer of some properties that are usually attributed exclusively to humans. Schellec takes these ideas to be relevant for two reasons. First, Schelling’s philosophy of nature is formulated at a time in which the instrumentalization of nature at the core of the current environmental crisis began to gain traction. Schelling explicitly opposes his own conception of nature to a mechanistic one, which, according to him, leads to the subordination of nature to human purposes. Schelling’s undertaking can thus be seen as an early philosophical reaction to developments leading to a crisis we now face. Second, Schelling’s attribution of subjectivity and autonomy to nature offers an epistemological framework to conceive of nature as a subject of rights. This attempt resonates both with contemporary discussions in environmental ethics and with the language used in the formulation of environmental policies. Objectives of Schellec were (1) to situate Schelling’s project in the context of philosophical responses to the rise of modern science; (2) to show that the key to Schelling’s project is not his conception of life, as usually argued in the secondary literature, but rather his conception of self-organization of matter; (3) to foreground the pivotal role of this notion of material self-organization in Schelling’s argument against the subordination of nature to human purposes; (4) to assess Schelling’s approach in the light of contemporary environmental debates.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The contemporary environmental crisis has triggered a revival of discussions on the concept of nature. Among scientists, philosophers, policy makers and citizens questions regarding environmental practices and the overall state of nature have become a matter of central concern. But what exactly is nature beyond the specific phenomena studied by specialized natural sciences, such as physics, chemistry or biology? Is there something else beyond these particular phenomena? What is the relationship between these phenomena and humanity? Do humans have a special status in relation to nature? On my account, these questions are at the core of the philosophy of nature that Schelling developed at the turn of the 19th century in response to the increasing instrumentalization of nature. More precisely, I take Schelling’s philosophy of nature to address versions of these same questions, especially as regards (a) the unity of nature beyond the phenomena studied by emerging scientific disciplines such as chemistry and biology, and (b) the status of humanity in relation to this unity. The overall aim of the project is to bring out the contemporary relevance of Schelling’s philosophy of nature by investigating it as an attempt to address these challenges. Counteracting mystical readings of Schelling’s project, I will argue (1) that he is concerned with the elaboration of a unified account of the phenomena studied in the natural sciences; (2) that his theory of self-organization aims to provide such an account; (3) that he conceives of the distinction between humans and non-human forms of nature as a distinction of degree; and (4) that this conception of nature as the manifestation of different degrees of self-organization is relevant to contemporary debates in that it forges a middle path between anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric approaches to nature.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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