Agustin Ostachuk
Researcher, Scientist, Theorist, Thinker
Dr. Agustín Ostachuk is a Transdisciplinary Scientific Researcher born in Argentina. He is devoted to the Big Questions of Life and the Nature of Reality/Existence. His main research area is Life Evolution and Development, from both a theoretical-philosophical (Theoretical Biology, Philosophy of Biology) and an empirical-biological (Evolutionary Biology, Evo-Devo) approach. In the first case, he works on theoretical and conceptual issues surrounding the theory of evolution. In the second case, he develops scientific research in the framework of Evolution and Development (Evo-Devo), using invertebrates (mollusks and arthropods) as working models. Agustín Ostachuk is the author of “A Theory of Evolution as a Process of Unfolding” (2020), a theory that challenges prevalent assumptions about Evolution, transcends the false and stagnant dichotomy between Intelligent Design (ID) and Darwinism, and proposes an evolutionary process carried out by teleological-purposeful formal agents. He is the Founding Director of EVOLUTIO: A Research Center for Evolution and Development, a new research space for the development of new ideas without the constraints and limitations established by the scientific-academic system.
Dr. Agustín Ostachuk is a Transdisciplinary Scientific Researcher born in Argentina. He is devoted to the Big Questions of Life and the Nature of Reality/Existence. His main research area is Life Evolution and Development, from both a theoretical-philosophical (Theoretical Biology, Philosophy of Biology) and an empirical-biological (Evolutionary Biology, Evo-Devo) approach. In the first case, he works on theoretical and conceptual issues surrounding the theory of evolution. In the second case, he develops scientific research in the framework of Evolution and Development (Evo-Devo), using invertebrates (mollusks and arthropods) as working models. Agustín Ostachuk is the author of “A Theory of Evolution as a Process of Unfolding” (2020), a theory that challenges prevalent assumptions about Evolution, transcends the false and stagnant dichotomy between Intelligent Design (ID) and Darwinism, and proposes an evolutionary process carried out by teleological-purposeful formal agents. He is the Founding Director of EVOLUTIO: A Research Center for Evolution and Development, a new research space for the development of new ideas without the constraints and limitations established by the scientific-academic system.
Research interests: Theoretical Biology, Evolution, Evo-Devo, Biology & Philosophy, Biophilosophy/Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Life, Natural Philosophy/Philosophy of Nature, History and Philosophy of Science, Systems thinking, Morphology, Complexity, Network theory, Science, Technology and Society (STS).
Notable ideas: A Theory of Evolution as a Process of Unfolding, Principle of Evolutionary Order, Teleological-Purposeful Formal Agent, Ideological Matrix, Intensive Complexity, Life at the Center of Existence, Eutopian Life, Life Organizational Forms, Euzoology.
Influenced by: Aristotle, Gaston Bachelard, Henri Bergson, Alexander Bogdanov, Georges Canguilhem, Charles Darwin, Hans Driesch, Kurt Goldstein, Stephen Gould, Ernst Haeckel, Carl Jung, Jean Lamarck, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Plato, Herbert Spencer, Jakob von Uexküll.
