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Pregnancy, a test case for immunology
The traditional conception of immune function is that of a system which differentiates the organism’s own tissues (the self) from any foreign...
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CRISPR-Cas immunity: beyond nonself and defence
In this commentary of Koonin’s target paper, we defend an extended view of CRISPR-Cas immunity by arguing that CRISPR-Cas includes, but cannot be...
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Philosophical Problems of Immunology
At the dawn of the computational era, immunology is at a crossroads: Its efforts to frame microbial-host interactions in combative, war-related terms...
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Does the Immune System Have a Function?
Functional ascription in biology is contentious, particularly when it takes a teleological form, that is, when the question being raised is the...
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Biological Codes: A Field Guide for Code Hunters
This article presents an update on known and unknown biological codes . While the genetic code has been recognized as a code for decades, most other...
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Conflicts Between General Causation and the Theravāda Concept of Kamma in Moral Education
This paper analyzes the concept of general causation and the concept of kamma. It argues that the concept of kamma does not fit with the concept of...
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Interview with Keti Chukhrov
This short interview explores the influence of Evald Ilyenkov’s work on contemporary philosopher, art theorist, and writer Keti Chukhrov. The...
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What Counts as an Immune Response? On the Role of Abiotic Stress in Immunology
In the postgenomic era, interactions between organism and environment are central in disciplines such as epigenetics, medical physiology, and...
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Interpermeation, or All Philosophical Positions Are Valid
Granularity conjures up metaphysical speculation with universal significance since the claim is we can think the Absolute, namely, the unconditioned,...
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On the materialist interpretation of the ideal by Evald Ilyenkov
This paper explores the materialist and the object-based dimension of “the ideal” in Evald Ilyenkov’s thought and, consequently, his speculative...
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The Ethical Implications of Enlightenment in Dōgen’s Philosophy of Compassion
What is the role of feelings (jō) in Dōgen’s Buddhist thought? Throughout the Shōbōgenzō Zuimonki, it is clear that Dōgen has a negative view of...
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Japanese “Mono-no-aware” and Western Philosophy
A melancholy feeling within traditional Japanese literary arts is described by the word “mono-no-aware もののあはれ.” Motoori Norinaga 本居宣長 (1730–1801) in...
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Singularity and Uniqueness: Why Is Our Immune System Subject to Psychological and Cognitive Traits?
Immunologists use psychological and cognitive terms to describe and explain the behavior of our immune system. Do they use them metaphorically or...
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Immunoceptive inference: why are psychiatric disorders and immune responses intertwined?
There is a steadily growing literature on the role of the immune system in psychiatric disorders. So far, these advances have largely taken the form...
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The Biological Production of Spacetime: A Sketch of the E-series Universe
Space and time, which should properly be taken conjointly, are both communicatively produced and created with certain contextual perspectives—they...
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Wuwei in the Lüshi Chunqiu
Given wuwei 無為 describes the life praxis of the sage and statecraft of the enlightened ruler while also denoting the comportment of the Dao 道—an...
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Can We Talk About Feminist Epistemic Values Beyond Gender? Lessons from the Gut Microbiome
I examine the feminist epistemic values in science, presented by Helen Longino, and their role in framing microbiome causality in the study of...
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Interpreting Interdependence in Fazang's Metaphysics
This paper examines the metaphysics of interdependence in the work of the Chinese Buddhist Fazang. The dominant approach of this metaphysics...
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How the Body Is Involved in Moral and Cognitive Emotions
In this chapter, I focus on a couple of ways in which human emotions are conditioned by bodily factors, for the sake of defending Nussbaum’s theory...