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| Science of Aging: From Idol Theories To Common Theories |
| Science of Aging: From Idol Theories To Common Theories, Philosophy of Medicine(The Journal of the Korean association for philosophy of medicine) Nr.11(2011), 57-79, in Korean This paper presents a critical argument against rosy expectations of the ageing on the basis of ideal theories. Dream of Eternal Youth lasted as the greatest desire of human being up to now from ancient times. Modern Science is trying to find out a silver-bullet for a longevity and healthy ageing. Biological medicine therefore is offering so many advanced theories of ageing in order to accomplish the physiological goal. I called them “idol theories” in a view that they can get into commercial tools unfortunately. Some theories of ageing might turn out to be true someday. But surely many of them that claim to solve the problem of ageing ended up just ad-hoc componential theories. In my article I will show that the so called “idol theory” could not be a one-to-one correspondent theory between theory and symptom/gene on ageing. The goal of this article is to search for the possible correlations among so-called idol theories and come up with a new insight on ageing both scientifically and philosophically. A lot of ultrafashionable idol theories can be necessary but not sufficient conditions for the scientific explanation of ageing. Even if we had a bunch of sufficient theories on ageing, we should also have another theory of common sense that our real life depend upon and is derived from, I argue philosophically that the common sense theory is more important than the idol theories in order to better our life. ageing, tamed species and field species, idol theories and common theories, telomere, Kirkwood Gruber, J., Mauss, I. B., & Tamir. M. (2011), “A dark side of happiness? How, when and why happiness is not always good” Perspectives on Psychological Science. Kerr,JFR., Wylliem,A. and Currie,AR.(1972), “Apoptosis: A Basic Biological Phenomenon with Wider aging Implications in Tissue Kinetics”, British Journal of Cancer(1972) 26, pp.239–257. Kirkwood,Tom(1999), Time of our lives; The Science of Human Ageing, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London Kirkwood,Tom(2008), “Understanding ageing from an evolutionary perspective”, Journal of Internal Medicine 263(2008); 117-127 Kirkwood,Tom(2010), “Why can’t we live forever?”, Scientific American, Sep.2010, Lee,JunHee, Andrei V. Budanov, Eek Joong Park, Ryan Birse, Teddy E. Kim, Guy A. Perkins, Karen Ocorr, Mark H. Ellisman, Rolf Bodmer, Ethan Bier, and Michael Karin(2010), “Sestrin as a Feedback Inhibitor of TOR That Prevents Age-Related Pathologies”, Science, 2010: 327 (5970): 1223-1228 Leslie,Mitch(2011), “Are Telomere Tests Ready for Prime Time?”, Science 22 April 2011: Vol. 332 no. 6028 pp. 414-415 Potten,Christopher & Wilson,James(2006), Apoptosis Vauper,JW(2010), “Biodemography of Human Ageing”, Nature464:25 DATE 20110630 PUBLISHED BY The Journal of the Korean association for philosophy of medicine in Korea" "Our Life Beyond Political Power: Ham,Seok-heon’s Life Philosophy |