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541Diversity regained: Precautionary approaches to COVID-19 as a phenomenon of the total environmentScience of the Total Environment 825 154029. 2022.As COVID-19 emerged as a phenomenon of the total environment, and despite the intertwined and complex relationships that make humanity an organic part of the Bio- and Geospheres, the majority of our responses to it have been corrective in character, with few or no consideration for unintended consequences which bring about further vulnerability to unanticipated global events. Tackling COVID-19 entails a systemic and precautionary approach to human-nature relations, which we frame as regaining di…Read more
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48Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get thereEnergy Research and Social Science 70. 2020.Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimulating the societal changes needed to address challenges like climate change. In this research we used a novel futures-oriented and participatory approach that asked what future envisioned knowledge systems might need to look like and how we might get…Read more
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34COVID-19 heralds a new epistemology of science for the public goodHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43 (2): 1-6. 2021.COVID-19 has revealed that science needs to learn how to better deal with the irreducible uncertainty that comes with global systemic risks as well as with the social responsibility of science towards the public good. Further developing the epistemological principles of new theories and experimental practices, alternative investigative pathways and communication, and diverse voices can be an important contribution of history and philosophy of science and of science studies to ongoing transformat…Read more
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22La matematizzazione dei plena. Un esempio di analisi fenomenologicaAnnali Del Dipartimento di Filosofia 12 119-144. 2006.Plena are the characteristic properties of material thing, of the thing we perceive in our daily experience. According to Husserl, the attempt to explain their features into the language of Physics is the core of the modern science of nature. Colours and smells are not directly reducible to geometrical forms and algebraic functions. In order to explain natural processes using mathematical terms, scientists need to find out how it is possible to measure them. Galileo claims that the world is made…Read more
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19Understanding Societies from Inside the Organisms. Leo Pardi’s Work on Social Dominance in Polistes WaspsJournal of the History of Biology 48 (3): 455-486. 2015.Leo Pardi was the initiator of ethological research in Italy. During more than 50 years of active scientific career, he gave groundbreaking contributions to the understanding of social life in insects, especially in Polistes wasps, an important model organism in sociobiology. In the 1940s, Pardi showed that Polistes societies are organized in a linear social hierarchy that relies on reproductive dominance and on the physiological and developmental mechanisms that regulate it, i.e. on the status …Read more
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16La critica delle "idee astratte" in "La democrazia in America" di Alexis de TocquevilleIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 23 (1): 141-154. 2010.
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11Inter- and transdisciplinary (ITD) approaches represent promising ways to address complex global challenges, such as climate change. Importantly, arts–sciences collaborations as a form of inter and transdisciplinarity have been widely recognized as potential catalysts for scientific development and social change towards sustainability. However, little attention has been paid to the process of reasoning among the participants in such collaborations. How do participants in arts–science collaborati…Read more
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10Ullica Segerstrale, Nature’s Oracle. The Life and Work of W.D. Hamilton , viii + 441 pp., illus., $25 (review)Journal of the History of Biology 46 (4): 757-759. 2013.
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9“How complex and even perverse the real world can be”: W.D. Hamilton's early work on social waspsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 64 41-52. 2017.
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4La scomparsa delle impressioni: Osservazioni gnoseologiche sulle nozioni di espressione, impressione, materia e forma nell’Estetica di Benedetto CroceAnnali Del Dipartimento di Filosofia 13 211-236. 2007.The main theme of this paper will be the elimination of the sensible features of our experience from the philosophical account of what it means to know something. The textual source on which we will focus our attention is Benedetto Croce’s Estetica come scienza dell’espressione e linguistica generale. Besides an epistemological dimension , what is sensible in our experience has also an ontological connotation . According to Croce, neither of them can be the basis of our knowledge. What we mean w…Read more
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3How is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health researchHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 46 (1): 1-26. 2024.Participatory and collaborative approaches in sustainability science and public health research contribute to co-producing evidence that can support interventions by involving diverse societal actors that range from individual citizens to entire communities. However, existing philosophical accounts of evidence are not adequate to deal with the kind of evidence generated and used in such approaches. In this paper, we present an account of evidence as clues for action through participatory and col…Read more
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Phenomenology and Psychological Science. Historical and Philosophical Perspectives - Peter D. Ashworth and Man C. Chung (review)Humana Mente 3 (11). 2009.
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Il canto degli antenati. Le origini della musica, del linguaggio, della mente e del corpo - Mithen Steven (review)Humana Mente 2 (4). 2008.
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Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Biology |
Philosophy of Social Science |