Biology and Philosophy. VIII. Heidegger’s aletheia, scientific method and the advancement of the exact sciences. Followed by some thoughts on the minds living in darkness and the origin of the countless superstitions of Homo sapiens and ending with ‘Do elephants see Einstein's moon?’

J.S. Gomez-Jeria

Aletheia, Archimedes, Einstein, exorcism, folie à deux, Heidegger, human primate, Kekulé, Lasègue-Falret syndrome, Newton, Paleolithic, Planck, Plato´s Cave, unconcealment.

Here I present some reflections on three topics that deserve to be scrutinized. The first corresponds to the connections between the concept of 'aletheia' in Heidegger, the scientific method, and the generation of new knowledge by the exact sciences. I defend the idea that, in some precise cases in the history of science, the concept of 'unconcealment' is applicable. The second theme focuses on the activity known in the West as exorcism from the point of view of the Lasègue-Falret syndrome. The central idea is that this activity is not treated as a psychiatric problem simply because it has been normalized in the sense of presenting it as an activity with a lawful historical basis. The third topic contains some comments on the well-known and unfortunate phrase of Einstein with the question if 'the moon exists only when I look at it'. 

https://doi.org/10.31871/WJRR.17.1.3