Gökhan Akbay
Gökhan Akbay
Hereditarianism, the belief that genetic factors significantly influence differences in behavioral traits and social outcomes, remains relevant in the age of polygenic embryo screening and social science genomics. Although early twentieth-c...
A Pragmatist-Artifactualist view of experimental model organisms: the case of epigenetic inheritance [0.03%]
实验模型生物的实用主义-人工主义观点——以表观遗传为例
Mariano Martín-Villuendas
Mariano Martín-Villuendas
Model organisms have long occupied a central place in the life sciences, driving major discoveries and stabilizing knowledge about biological mechanisms conserved across taxa. However, their dominance has often eclipsed experimental model o...
Life as we don't know it: plant life in the history and philosophy of science an introduction [0.03%]
我们所不知的生命：科学史与科学哲学中的植物生命简介
Fabrizio Baldassarri
Fabrizio Baldassarri
This introduction discusses the challenges plant life has represented in the history and philosophy of science, and outlines the topics dealt with by the contributors. Understanding plant life, behaviour, and nature reveals a crucial featur...
The ontological status of behaviour: lessons from experimental neurosis (1900-1950) [0.03%]
行为的存在论地位：来自实验神经症的教训（1900-1950）
Rodrigo J De Marco
Rodrigo J De Marco
This article examines how early twentieth-century comparative psychology treated behaviour as a primary site for studying regulation, dysfunction, and adaptation, using experimental neurosis as a historical case study. Beginning with Pavlov...
Charles Lyell's theological preformationism: the role of the "Author of nature" in the uniformitarian balance of nature and the evolution of natural species [0.03%]
查尔斯·莱尔的神学预成论：“自然之作者”在均变主义的“自然界平衡”和自然物种演变中的作用
Bogdana Stamenković Jajčević
Bogdana Stamenković Jajčević
This paper explores the role of the "Author of nature" in Charles Lyell's uniformitarianism. I start with a brief explanation of the term "uniformitarianism" and the identification of the fundamental hypotheses of Lyell's theory. Moving for...
John R Shook
John R Shook
An evolutionary naturalism hospitable for life and its sentience should have been a philosophical priority since Darwin, but dualistic temptations have swayed vitalisms, emergentisms, and panpsychisms. Tracing sentience's evolution from bio...
Geneticization studies as a theoretical field: an uneven history and conceptual reconstruction [0.03%]
遗传化研究作为一个理论领域：不均衡的历史与概念重构
Navid Ravan,Hamidreza Namazi
Navid Ravan
Geneticization is a process of expanding genetics to define, predict, and possibly intervene in human conditions. Regardless of how and to what extent genetics has developed, theoretical reflection on the concept of geneticization which we ...
The gendered "stathetic" body: a scientifically informed philosophical approach to corporality [0.03%]
具有性别差异的「静止」身体——一种科学哲学视角下的肉身性研究
Mariana Córdoba,Florencia Labombarda,John Dupré et al.
Mariana Córdoba et al.
Bodies are often treated as entities expected to conform to stable, idealized forms, such as binary sex, health, youth, beauty, slimness. Bodies must tend to present static and aesthetic traits. Yet this apparent stability conceals a deeper...
Paolo Pecere
Paolo Pecere
Plant "intelligence" and "sensation" are controversial notions in contemporary botany. While some scientists argue that sensory awareness, learning, memory, communication, and possibly a kind of consciousness should be ascribed to plants, a...
Stella Sandford
Stella Sandford
This article examines Buffon's general theory of reproduction, concentrating on his discussion of the similarities and differences between animals and plants and his explanation of nourishment, development and reproduction as effects of the...