ABSTRACT
Roberto Marchesini examines the concept of philosophical ethology as a key idea to describe his non-reductive and non-deterministic theory of ethology. He draws heavily on classical ethology, cognitive ethology, and neuroscience, as well as on knowledge from behaviorism, he articulates a non-dualist and emergent understanding of ethology that must. He points out that Konrad Lorenz offers invaluable tools for philosophical ethology, but that Lorenz must be reread philosophically to dispense with outmoded claims and to incorporate advances in evolutionary, neuroscientific, and ontological thought. It is clear that a systemic approach considers the endowments as evolutive buds or as non-finite resources, consequently as open worksites or coordinates of growth. Desire does not mean ethologically consuming an energy, but placing oneself in the world through a languor that places one in a state of non-equilibrium not exhausted in our heritage. Desiring is becoming through continual hybridization with the alterity of the world.
