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Universidad de Educación Nacional A Distancia
Departamento de Filosofía

Other (Part-time)
Universidad de Cádiz

Other (Part-time)

Universidad de Cádiz

Department of Philosophy

PhD, 2018

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Sevilla, Andalucia, Spain

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Areas of Specialization

History of Western Philosophy

Philosophical Traditions

Areas of Interest

History of Western Philosophy

Metaphysics and Epistemology

Philosophical Traditions

Morir para vivir. La muerte celular como proceso regulador
María Belén Campero, Cristián Favre, and Cristian Saborido

Theoria. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science. forthcoming.

Usually, the organization of living systems is explained by appealing to an intrinsic purpose that is based on the biological survival. However, paradigmatically, it is inevitable to observe that the final destiny of all living organisms is death. In this work, we defend that, from an organizational approach, there is a form of death—Regulatory Cell Death—that, far from being a mere "absence of life", is a process of biological regulation and a feature of self-maintenance in multicellular organi…Read more
Usually, the organization of living systems is explained by appealing to an intrinsic purpose that is based on the biological survival. However, paradigmatically, it is inevitable to observe that the final destiny of all living organisms is death. In this work, we defend that, from an organizational approach, there is a form of death—Regulatory Cell Death—that, far from being a mere "absence of life", is a process of biological regulation and a feature of self-maintenance in multicellular organisms.