Ramón Turró
Ramón Turró (Girona 1854 - Barcelona 1926) was a biologist and philosopher and is one of the most interesting figures of the scientific panorama of the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.
Turró was a pioneer in many things, both in scientific research itself and in methodological and organisational aspects derived from it. He stood out for his studies in microbiology, immunology and hygiene at the Barcelona Municipal Laboratory. Turró developed his philosophical meditations in close relationship with his biological research. This is confirmed above all in his theory of knowledge, which bases the origin of all knowledge on a primordial phenomenon: hunger.
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Programme
Ramon Turró, scientist and thinker
Malgrat de Mar, December 16th and 17th 2004
(Click here to download the program in pdf)
Thursday, December 16th
RAMON TURRÓ‘S PHILOSOPHICAL AND HUMANISTIC THOUGHT
- Inauguration of the Symposium by Josep-Maria Terricabras, director of the Ferrater Mora and Conxita Campoy Chair, Mayor of Malgrat de Mar
- Ramon Turró, l’home que treballa i que no juga, by Oriol Casassas (Member emeritus of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans) (Debate)
- Dos diàlegs i una polèmica: Ruyra, Ors, Pla i Ramon Turró, by Xavier Pla (Universitat de Girona) (Debate)
- De la saviesa del cos a la filosofia, by Joan Cuscó (Debate)
- Ramon Turró i el positivisme, by Ramon Alcoberro (Universitat de Girona) (Debate)
Friday, December 17th
RAMON TURRÓ‘S SCIENTIFIC THINKING
- El pensament de Ramon Turró, by Miquel Siguan (Universitat de Barcelona) (Debate)
- Originalitat del pensament filosòfic i actualitat de l’actitud epistemològica de Ramon Turró, by Joan Boldú (PhD in Philosophy) (Debate)
- Ramon Turró i les primeres passes de l’ “escola biològica catalana”, by Josep Maria Camarasa (Biologist and science historian) (Debate)
- Sobre la “sensibilitat tròfica” de Ramon Turró, by Ramon Espasa (Senator for the Entesa Catalana de Progrés) (Debate)
- Conclusion of the Symposium
Papers
Thursday, December 16th, 2004
- El lloc de Turró en la tradició filosòfica catalana: una lectura de l’article “Criteriologia de Jaume Balmes”, by Misericòrdia Anglès (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Ramon Turró vist per Jaume Serra Húnter, by Miquel Verdaguer Turró
Publication
The year 2007 will see the publication of Ramon Turró, científic i pensador, at Documenta Universitaria.
From the presentation: “Turró has a global, complete vision of the human organization, without rigid distinctions between the interior and exterior world. Here is precisely the essence of his famous work Origins of knowledge: family, and the most basic core of his thought. And here there is also another element of modernity in its approach, which at the time was a pioneer and which continues to offer many aspects of great actuality”.
See the review published in Enrahonar magazine, n. 44, 2010.
Press releases
Click here to read the press dossier of the Symposium dedicated to Ramon Turró.