Atlan H
School of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Sci Context. 1995 Spring;8(1):265-77. doi: 10.1017/s026988970000199x.
The status of the person is analyzed as represented by the life sciences under the influence of modern physico-chemical and molecular biology. At the same time the linguistic structure of reality as seen through formalized scientific discourse is not that of a language, but rather that of operational symbolisms, so that the Judeo-Greek tradition of Verb as creating and Logos as procreating--which is probably at the origin of the surprising confidence in the possibility of dominating nature through words and formulae--could be successful only through the depersonalization of language. Notwithstanding appearances, the phenomena of structural and functional self-organization do not really change this situation. In this context the question of the status of the person and of the intentional subject has to be dealt with pragmatically, giving up the notion of a unified scientific theory that would take into consideratiion at the same time the experimental sciences (physics, chemistry, biology and "ojective" human) and the human sciences as linking subjectivity and intentionality.
在现代物理化学和分子生物学的影响下，生命科学所呈现的人的状态得到了分析。与此同时，通过形式化科学话语所看到的现实的语言结构并非语言的结构，而是操作符号系统的结构，因此，将动词视为创造、将逻各斯视为繁衍的犹太-希腊传统——这可能是对通过言语和公式主宰自然的可能性抱有惊人信心的根源——只有通过语言的非人格化才能成功。尽管有表象，但结构和功能的自组织现象并没有真正改变这种情况。在这种背景下，必须从实用主义角度处理人的状态和意向性主体的问题，放弃那种同时考虑实验科学（物理学、化学、生物学和“客观”人类科学）以及将主观性和意向性联系起来的人文科学的统一科学理论的概念。
