Foundations of the life sciences, ethics and epistemology

Research project

FOUNDATIONS OF THE LIFE SCIENCES

Our research concerns mainly two issues:
1) the conceptual analysis of key topics in the foundations of the life sciences (for example, biological individuality, biological clusters, biological explanation, biomedical models, logic and biomedical databases, etc.)
2) the development of a computational language for molecular biology.

ETICHS & BIOETHICS

A pluralist meta-ethical viewpoint characterizes our approach to the ethical and bioethical questions. It wants to be bio-medically grounded and based on a rigorous way of reasoning. Particular attention is paid to develop and implement a deliberative bioethics.

EPISTEMOLOGY

We are moving along a Kantian pathway, which emphasizes the role of the knowing subject in representing the world.