Jagadis Bose’s panvitalism as intellectual history

IF 0.1 Q4 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Subrata Dasgupta
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No aspect of Jagadis Chandra Bose’s science is more enigmatic than his concern with the relationship between the living and nonliving, explored from 1900 through 1902. Elsewhere this writer called this the ‘middle Bose’ period since it separated Bose the physicist (1894–1900) from Bose the plant physiologist (1903 and after). The essence of his insight developed in this brief period was formerly termed by this writer the ‘Boseian thesis’ and summarized as ‘There is no discontinuity between the living and nonliving’. However, a more nuanced examination of three key texts published by Bose in this period, along with supplemental archival documents reveals that his articulation of the relationship between the living and nonliving evolved in subtle and daring ways culminating in an expression of the doctrine of panvitalism. This doctrine—that life pervades all matter—is an idea about the natural world. Thus, examining Bose’s panvitalism takes us into the realm of intellectual history: the close study of the meaning of Bose’s texts in order to understand his intention in exploring the relationship of the living and nonliving, the context of his investigation and its relation to the texts, and how he arrived at his panvitalist doctrine. The intellectual history of Bose’s panvitalism is the subject of this paper.

Jagadis Bose的泛生机论作为思想史
从1900年到1902年,贾加迪斯·钱德拉·玻色对生物和非生物之间关系的研究,是他科学研究中最神秘的部分。在其他地方,笔者称这一时期为“玻色中期”,因为它将玻色作为物理学家(1894-1900)与玻色作为植物生理学家(1903年及之后)分开了。他在这段短暂的时期内形成的洞察力的本质,曾被笔者称为“波色理论”,并总结为“生命与非生命之间没有不连续”。然而,对玻色在这一时期出版的三本关键文本以及补充的档案文件进行更细致入微的考察,就会发现他对生命与非生命之间关系的阐述以微妙而大胆的方式发展,最终达到了对泛生命论教义的表达。这一学说——生命遍及所有物质——是一种关于自然界的观点。因此,考察玻色的泛生命论将我们带入思想史的领域:深入研究玻色文本的意义,以理解他探索生命与非生命的关系的意图,他的研究背景及其与文本的关系,以及他是如何得出他的泛生命论学说的。本文的主题是玻色泛生机论的思想史。
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