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Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology (a.k.a. nanotech) refers to the controlled manipulation of materials at the atomic or molecular scale termed the nanoscale (i.e., less...
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Signs of Interdisciplinarity in the Second Half of the XX Century and Prospects for the XXI Century
Interdisciplinarity is an unavoidable reality for anyone who wants to think out the current condition of scientific knowledge. Its emergence at the...
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Thinking in 3 dimensions: philosophies of the microenvironment in organoids and organs-on-chip
Organoids and organs-on-a-chip are currently the two major families of 3D advanced organotypic in vitro culture systems, aimed at reconstituting...
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Modeling mothering: the development of an experimental system in neurobiology
This article explores the development of a rat model of mother-infant relationships from its origins in the psychosomatic investigations of the...
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Why language clouds our ascription of understanding, intention and consciousness
The grammatical manipulation and production of language is a great deceiver. We have become habituated to accept the use of well-constructed language...
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Ptolemaic Man and Copernican Man: In Favour of “Depth Anthropology”
This essay highlights how in the anthropology of Portmann, nature and culture, history and biology, coexist in man in a form of close collaboration,...
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The Evolutionary Nature of Knowledge
There is uncanny similarity between evolutionary biology and evolutionary knowledge. Darwin’s theory of evolution is the most comprehensive and...
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Understanding in Medicine
This paper aims to clarify the nature of understanding in medicine. The first part describes in more detail what it means to understand something and...
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Life in Medium: Rethinking the Possibilities of Art and Bio-Media from an Aesthetic Ontology
This chapter explores the connection between art, science, and biotechnology from a philosophical standpoint. We draw on concepts and theories from...
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Philosophy of Technoscience: From Cis-Continental to Trans-Continental
The previous chapters explored how four (interacting and overlap**) continental approaches (dialectics, dialectical materialism, psychoanalysis and...
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Human genetics in post-WWII Italy: blood, genes and platforms
Italian Life sciences in post-WWII faced important challenges: the reconstruction of a scientific panorama suffering heavily after two decades of...
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Change in the graphics of journal articles in the life sciences field: analysis of figures and tables in the journal “Cell”
The purpose of this study is to examine how trends in the use of images in modern life science journals have changed since the spread of...
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Carving the mind at its homologous joints
My aim in this paper is twofold. First, I provide an analysis of the notion of cognitive homology. In contrast with the well-known concept of...
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Biopolitics
Biopolitics is a neologism consisting of the Greek words bios (life) and politikos (that which relates to the citizen or to the state). It refers...
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GMOs and Human and Environmental Safety
The 50-year anniversary of the first 1972 laboratory demonstration of transgenesis resulting in biotechnology (or Biotech for short), provides an...
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Lakatosian and Euclidean populations: a pluralist approach to conceptual change in mathematics
Lakatos’ (Lakatos,
1976 ) model of mathematical conceptual change has been criticized for neglecting the diversity of dynamics exhibited by...
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Constraints on Localization and Decomposition as Explanatory Strategies in the Biological Sciences 2.0
This paper is a follow up to Silberstein and Chemero (2013), wherein it was argued that contra the new mechanist philosophy, localization and...
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Attention as a patchwork concept
This paper examines attention as a scientific concept, and argues that it has a patchwork structure. On this view, the concept of attention takes on...
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Technology and Neutrality
This paper clarifies and answers the following question: is technology morally neutral? It is argued that the debate between proponents and opponents...