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Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Sonsoles Hernandez Barbosa
This article analyses the evolutionist discourses on the senses that emerged in the late 19th century, when theories on the evolution of species were in full sway. Drawing on newspapers, essays and medical literature, this article aims to set face to face the two currents of thought that I have identified regarding sensory evolution: the one that stressed the value of the progressive specialisation
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Forgetting how we ate: personalised nutrition and the strategic uses of history Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Christopher Mayes, Maurizio Meloni
Personalised nutrition (PN) has emerged over the past twenty years as a promising area of research in the postgenomic era and has been popularized as the new big thing out of molecular biology. Advocates of PN claim that previous approaches to nutrition sought general and universal guidance that applied to all people. In contrast, they contend that PN operates with the principle that “one size does
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Embodied cognition and the imaging of bio-pathologies: the question of experiential primacy in detecting diagnostic phenomena Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-19
Abstract This article investigates the origins of the experiences involved in the diagnostics (detection and normative evaluation) of biological entities in image-based medical praxis. Our specific research aim presupposes a vast discussion regarding the origins of knowledge in general, but is narrowed down to the alternatives of anthropomorphism and biomorphism. Accordingly, in the subsequent chapters
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Scrutinizing microbiome determinism: why deterministic hypotheses about the microbiome are conceptually ungrounded Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Javier Suárez
This paper addresses the topic of determinism in contemporary microbiome research. I distinguish two types of deterministic claims about the microbiome, and I show evidence that both types of claims are present in the contemporary literature. First, the idea that the host genetics determines the composition of the microbiome which I call “host-microbiome determinism”. Second, the idea that the genetics
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A work in progress: William Bateson’s vibratory theory of repetition of parts Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-05
Abstract In 1891 Cambridge biologist William Bateson (1861–1926) announced his idea that the symmetrical segmentation in living organisms resulted from energy peaks of some vibratory force acting on tissues during morphogenesis. He also demonstrated topographically how folding a radially symmetric organism could produce another with bilateral symmetry. Bateson attended many lectures at the Cambridge
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After the trans brain: a critique of the neurobiological accounts of embodied trans* identities Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Maite Arraiza Zabalegui
This paper critically analyses three main neurobiological hypotheses on trans* identities: the neurobiological theory about the origin of gender dysphoria, the neurodevelopmental cortical hypothesis, and the alternative hypothesis of self-referential thinking and body perception. In this study I focus then the attention on three elements: the issue of (de)pathologisation, the idea of the trans brain
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From the harmony to the tension: Helmuth Plessner and Kurt Goldstein’s readings of Jakob von Uexküll Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Matteo Pagan, Marco Dal Pozzolo
This paper investigates the reception and discussion of Jakob von Uexküll’s biological theory by two German thinkers of his time, Helmuth Plessner and Kurt Goldstein. It demonstrates how their bio-philosophical perspectives are on the one hand indebted to Uexküll’s theory and, on the other, critical of its tendency to excessively harmonize the relationship between living beings and their environment
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How should we distinguish between selectable and circumstantial traits? Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Ciprian Jeler
There is surprisingly little philosophical work on conceptually spelling out the difference between the traits on which natural selection may be said to act (e.g. “having a high running speed”) and mere circumstantial traits (e.g. “happening to be in the path of a forest fire”). I label this issue the “selectable traits problem” and, in this paper, I propose a solution for it. I first show that, contrary
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When remediating one artifact results in another: control, confounders, and correction Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 David Colaço
Scientists aim to remediate artifacts in their experimental datasets. However, the remediation of one artifact can result in another. Why might this happen, and what does this consequence tell us about how we should account for artifacts and their control? In this paper, I explore a case in functional neuroimaging where remediation appears to have caused this problem. I argue that remediation amounts
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On the nature of evolutionary explanations: a critical appraisal of Walter Bock’s approach with a new revised proposal Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Marcelo Domingos de Santis
Walter Bock was committed to developing a framework for evolutionary biology. Bock repeatedly discussed how evolutionary explanations should be considered within the realm of Hempel’s deductive-nomological model of scientific explanations. Explanation in evolution would then consist of functional and evolutionary explanations, and within the latter, an explanation can be of nomological-deductive and
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How is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health research Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Guido Caniglia, Federica Russo
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
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Resilience and the shift of paradigm in ecology: a new name for an old concept or a different explanatory tool? Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Lara Barbara
In the shift from the balance of nature to the flux of nature paradigm, the concept of resilience has gained great traction in ecology. While it has been suggested that the concept of resilience does not imply a genuine departure from the balance of nature paradigm, I shall argue against this stance. To do so, I first show that the balance of nature paradigm and the related conception of a single-state
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Refusing epigenetics: indigeneity and the colonial politics of trauma Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Jaya Keaney, Henrietta Byrne, Megan Warin, Emma Kowal
Environmental epigenetics is increasingly employed to understand the health outcomes of communities who have experienced historical trauma and structural violence. Epigenetics provides a way to think about traumatic events and sustained deprivation as biological “exposures” that contribute to ill-health across generations. In Australia, some Indigenous researchers and clinicians are embracing epigenetic
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A fetus in the world: Physiology, epidemiology, and the making of fetal origins of adult disease Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Tatjana Buklijas, Salim Al-Gailani
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Between the genotype and the phenotype lies the microbiome: symbiosis and the making of ‘postgenomic’ knowledge Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Cécile Fasel, Luca Chiapperino
Emphatic claims of a “microbiome revolution” aside, the study of the gut microbiota and its role in organismal development and evolution is a central feature of so-called postgenomics; namely, a conceptual and/or practical turn in contemporary life sciences, which departs from genetic determinism and reductionism to explore holism, emergentism and complexity in biological knowledge-production. This
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Croizat’s form-making, RNA networks, and biogeography Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Karin Mahlfeld, Lynne R. Parenti
Advances in technology have increased our knowledge of the processes that effect genomic changes and of the roles of RNA networks in biocommunication, functionality, and evolution of genomes. Natural genetic engineering and genomic inscription occur at all levels of life: cell cycles, development, and evolution. This has implications for phylogenetic studies and for biogeography, particularly given
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Collecting human remains in nineteenth-century Paris: the case of the Société Anatomique de Paris and the Musée Dupuytren Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Juliette Ferry-Danini
This paper describes the scientific practices of the anatomists from the Société Anatomique de Paris (1803–1873) who were collecting anatomical and pathological specimens in Nineteenth-Century Paris and which led to the building of the anatomy and pathology Musée Dupuytren (1835–2016). The framework introduced by Robert Kohler to describe collecting sciences (2007) is useful as a tool to identify the
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Kersten T. Hall, Insulin-the crooked timber: a history from thick brown muck to wall street gold, Oxford: Oxford university press, 2021. Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Neelanjana Ray
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Andrew S. Reynolds, The third lens: metaphor and the creation of modern cell biology, Chicago: the Chicago University Press, 2018. Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Varsha Nallthambi Tamilkumar
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Minding the gap: discovering the phenomenon of chemical transmission in the nervous system Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 William Bechtel
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Finding value-ladenness in evolutionary psychology: Examining Nelson’s arguments Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Yuichi Amitani
Faced with the charge of value-ladenness in their theories, researchers in evolutionary psychology (EP) argue that their science is entirely free of values; their hypotheses only concern scientific facts, without any socio-cultural value judgments. Lynn Hankinson Nelson, a renowned feminist scholar of science, denies this. In her book and papers, Nelson finds that their hypotheses do contain evaluative
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The machine-organism relation revisited Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Maurizio Esposito, Lorenzo Baravalle
This article addresses some crucial assumptions that are rarely acknowledged when organisms and machines are compared. We begin by presenting a short historical reconstruction of the concept of “machine.” We show that there has never been a unique and widely accepted definition of “machine” and that the extant definitions are based on specific technologies. Then we argue that, despite the concept's
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Cropping synonymy: varietal standardization in the United States, 1900–1970 Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Tad Brown
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Maya J. Goldenberg, Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Soumya Swain
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Claude Bernard’s non reception of Darwinism Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Ghyslain Bolduc, Caroline Angleraux
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Cailin O'Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Davis Kuykendall
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Georg Striedter, Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022. Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Nina Atanasova
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Ben Bradley, Darwin's psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Greg Priest
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Historiographical approaches to biogeography: a critical review Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Alfredo Bueno-Hernández, Ana Barahona, Juan J. Morrone, David Espinosa, Fabiola Juárez-Barrera
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Hodgkin’s and Huxley’s own assessments of their “quantitative description” of nerve membrane current Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 John Bickle
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Sorting sex, controlling sex: Masui Kiyoshi’s chicken research and experimental system, 1915–1950 Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Kyoryen Hwang
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The concepts and origins of cell mortality Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Pierre M. Durand, Grant Ramsey
Organismal death is foundational to the evolution of life, and many biological concepts such as natural selection and life history strategy are so fashioned only because individuals are mortal. Organisms, irrespective of their organization, are composed of basic functional units—cells—and it is our understanding of cell death that lies at the heart of most general explanatory frameworks for organismal
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Technology in scientific practice: how H. J. Muller used the fruit fly to investigate the X-ray machine Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Svit Komel
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A controversy about chance and the origins of life: thermodynamicist Ilya Prigogine replies to molecular biologist Jacques Monod Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Emanuel Bertrand
The ancient, interlinked questions about the role of chance in the living world and the origins of life, gained new relevance with the development of molecular biology in the twentieth century. In 1970, French molecular biologist Jacques Monod, joint winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, devoted a popular book on modern biology and its philosophical implications to these questions
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On diversity of human-nature relationships in environmental sciences and its implications for the management of ecological crisis Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 L. Mouysset
Decision makers addressing the ecological crisis face the challenge of considering complex ecosystems in their socioeconomic decisions. Complementary to ecological sciences, other scientific frameworks, grouped under the umbrella term environmental sciences, offer decision makers the opportunity to pursue sustainable paths. Because the environmental sciences are drawn from different branches of science
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Correction: Heredity as a problem. On Claude Bernard’s failed attempts at resolution Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Laurent Loison
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History, philosophy, and science education: reflections on genetics 20 years after the human genome project. Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Robert Meunier
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Timeless spaces: Field experiments in the physiological study of circadian rhythms, 1938–1963 Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Kristin D. Hussey
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From technique to normativity: the influence of Kant on Georges Canguilhem’s philosophy of life Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Emiliano Sfara
Many historical studies tend to underline two central Kantian themes frequently emerging in Georges Canguilhem’s works: (1) a conception of activity, primarily stemming from the Critique of Pure Reason, as a mental and abstract synthesis of judgment; and (2) a notion of organism, inspired by the Critique of Judgment, as an integral totality of parts. Canguilhem was particularly faithful to the first
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Paris or Berlin? Claude Bernard’s rivalry with Emil du Bois-Reymond Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Gabriel Finkelstein
Claude Bernard (1813–1878) and Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818–1896) rank as two of the most influential scientists of the nineteenth century. Renowned for their experiments, lectures, and writing, Bernard and du Bois-Reymond earned great prestige as professors of physiology in a time when Paris and Berlin reigned as capitals of science. Yet even though they were equals in every way, du Bois-Reymond’s reputation
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Thinking in 3 dimensions: philosophies of the microenvironment in organoids and organs-on-chip Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Silvia Caianiello, Marta Bertolaso, Guglielmo Militello
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The essentialism of early modern psychiatric nosology Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Hein van den Berg
Are psychiatric disorders natural kinds? This question has received a lot of attention within present-day philosophy of psychiatry, where many authors debate the ontology and nature of mental disorders. Similarly, historians of psychiatry, dating back to Foucault, have debated whether psychiatric researchers conceived of mental disorders as natural kinds or not. However, historians of psychiatry have
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Overlooked contributions of Ayurveda literature to the history of physiology of digestion and metabolism Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Aparna Singh, Sonam Agrawal, Kishor Patwardhan, Sangeeta Gehlot
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Claude Bernard and life in the laboratory Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Hans-Joerg Rheinberger
Much has been written on Claude Bernard as a relentless promoter of the experimental method in physiology. Although the paper will touch Bernard’s experimental intuitions and his experimental practice as well, its focus is slightly different. It will address the laboratory, that is, the space in which experimentation in the life sciences takes place, and it will analyze the scattered remarks that Bernard
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Heredity as a problem. On Claude Bernard’s failed attempts at resolution Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Laurent Loison
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Circulating bodies: human-animal movements in science and medicine. Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Sabina Leonelli,Robert G W Kirk,Dmitriy Myelnikov
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Epistemological discipline in animal behavior studies: Konrad Lorenz and Daniel Lehrman on intuition and empathy Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Marga Vicedo
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Evolution within the body: the rise and fall of somatic Darwinism in the late nineteenth century Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Bartlomiej Swiatczak
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Anneli Jefferson, Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?, London: Routledge, 2022. Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Héloïse Athéa
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Post-Darwinian fish classifications: theories and methodologies of Günther, Cope, and Gill Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 James R. Jackson, Aleta Quinn
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Editorial introduction: Biomedicine and life sciences as a challenge to human temporality Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Nitzan Rimon-Zarfay, Mark Schweda
Bringing together scholars from philosophy, bioethics, law, sociology, and anthropology, this topical collection explores how innovations in the field of biomedicine and the life sciences are challenging and transforming traditional understandings of human temporality and of the temporal duration, extension and structure of human life. The contributions aim to expand the theoretical debate by highlighting
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The legal relevance of a minor patient’s wish to die: a temporality-related exploration of end-of-life decisions in pediatric care Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Jozef H. H. M. Dorscheidt
Decisions regarding the end-of-life of minor patients are amongst the most difficult areas of decision-making in pediatric health care. In this field of medicine, such decisions inevitably occur early in human life, which makes one aware of the fact that any life—young or old—cannot escape its temporal nature. Belgium and the Netherlands have adopted domestic regulations, which conditionally permit
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Human genetics in post-WWII Italy: blood, genes and platforms Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Mauro Capocci
Italian Life sciences in post-WWII faced important challenges: the reconstruction of a scientific panorama suffering heavily after two decades of Fascism and the damages of war. Modernization was not only a matter of recreating a favorable environment for research, by modernizing Italian biomedical institutions and connecting the Italian scientists with the new ideas coming from abroad. The introduction
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Mandatory vaccinations, the segregation of citizens, and the promotion of inequality in the modern democracy of Greece and other democratic countries in the era of COVID-19 Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Charalampos Mavridis, Georgios Aidonidis, Marianna Evangelou, Athanasios Kalogeridis
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Sterelny, Kim. The Pleistocene Social Contract. New York: Oxford University Press. 2021. xi + 200 pp. Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Loïc Latouche-Simard
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From exceptional to common presence: Italian women in twentieth-century life sciences Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Ariane Dröscher
This essay surveys the situation of Italian women life scientists from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It follows the path that took women from being an exceptional presence to becoming a common, yet not equal, presence in the Italian science departments. Very different proportions of women occupied the three ranks in the academic hierarchy—students, research staff and professors
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Planer R. J. & Sterelny K., From Signal to Symbol: the Evolution of Language, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 276 pp. Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Loïc Latouche-Simard
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Parachutes, randomized controlled trials, and all-cause mortality Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Thomas Milovac
In 2003 and 2018 researchers discussed the perils of blind reliance on randomized controlled trials that have been substituted for medical experience and clinical acumen. Although these past articles do well to shed light on this issue, they neglect to discuss the topic of all-cause mortality in controlled trials. The current essay seeks to fill this void and expand the thought put into the appropriateness
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Humanising and dehumanising pigs in genomic and transplantation research Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 James W. E. Lowe
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Octavio Ocampo, Mexican painter: a metamorphic look at the discourse between the local and the global Hist. Philos. Life Sci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Erica Torrens Rojas, Juan Manuel Rodríguez Caso