With this book, Maureen O’Malley aimed to fill the gap between the philosophy of microbes and the philosophy of ‘macrobes’ (a neologism coined by O’Malley and Dupre´ to indicate cellular organisms other than microbes). After a conceptual introduction, the first chapter reports two exemplificative case studies, followed by brief perspec- tives concerning the philosophical content of microbiology and about the philosophy of biology in light of microbiolo- gy. At page 41, the reader will find a bottleneck: from this point up to the conclusions, the author will cover topics in which the consideration of microbiology leads one to radi- cally and/or incrementally rethink philosophy of biology assumptions.
The great microbial beauty
SPANO, GIUSEPPE;CAPOZZI, VITTORIO;RUSSO, PASQUALE
2015-01-01
Abstract
With this book, Maureen O’Malley aimed to fill the gap between the philosophy of microbes and the philosophy of ‘macrobes’ (a neologism coined by O’Malley and Dupre´ to indicate cellular organisms other than microbes). After a conceptual introduction, the first chapter reports two exemplificative case studies, followed by brief perspec- tives concerning the philosophical content of microbiology and about the philosophy of biology in light of microbiolo- gy. At page 41, the reader will find a bottleneck: from this point up to the conclusions, the author will cover topics in which the consideration of microbiology leads one to radi- cally and/or incrementally rethink philosophy of biology assumptions.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
