Biomedical humanities and epistemology

Selected papers

General Philosophy of Science and Epistemology

• (with P. Vidali) Filosofia della scienza (Philosophy of Science), B. Mondadori, Milano 1999.
• (with P. Vidali) Introduzione alla filosofia della scienza (Introduction to the Philosophy of Science), B. Mondadori, Milano 2003.
• On Scientific Representations From Kant to a New Philosophy of Science, Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.
• (with S. Valentini) Vaguennes, Kant, and Topology. A Study of Formal Epistemology, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 37 (2008), pp.141-168.
• (with R. Faraldo, A. Saggion) On Spatial and Temporal ex mensura Boundaries, Foundations of Science, 14(2009), pp.181-193.
• (with R. Faraldo, A. Saggion) Explicating the notion of 'Causation': The Role of the Extensive Quantitites, in P. McKay Illari, F. Russo, J. Williamson (eds.), Mechanisms and Causality in the Sciences, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Philosophy of the Life Sciences

• Che cos'è il caso in biologia? (What is chance in biology?), Atti dei Convegni Lincei, 185(2003), pp. 25-44.
• Biology without Information, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 25(2003), 257-275.
• (with M. Carrara) On Biological Identity, Biology and Philosophy, 19(2004), pp. 443-457.
• The Ontogenesis of Human Identity, in A. O'Hear (ed.) Biology, Philosophy and Life, Supplement to Philosophy, n. 56, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2005, pp. 49-82.
• A Contextualized Approach To Biological Explanation, Philosophy, 80(2005), pp. 219-247.
• (with A. Aprile, M. Libero), Causality And Methodology. Notes on Thanatochronological Estimations, History and Philosophy of The Life Sciences, 27 (2005), pp. 381-393.
• (ed. with G. De Anna) Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006; it contains also: G. Boniolo, The Descent of Instinct and the Ascent of Ethics ; G. Boniolo, P. Vezzoni, Genetic Influences on Moral Capacity. What Genetics Mutants Teach Us.
• (with L. Lorusso), 'Clustering Humans. On Biological Boundaries', Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 39 (2008), pp. 163-170.
• (ed. with S. Giaimo) Filosofia e scienze della vita. Un'analisi dei fondamenti della biologia e della biomedicina. (Philosophy and the Life Sciences. An Analysis of the Foundations of Biology and Biomedicine), Bruno Mondadoori, Milano 2008
• (with P.P. Di Fiore, M. D’Agostino), 'Zsyntax: a formal language for molecular biology with projected applications in text mining and biological prediction', PLOsONE, 5(3): e9511; doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009511.

Ethics & Bioethics

• (with P.P. Di Fiore, S. Pece) Trusted Consent and Research Biobanks. Towards a "new alliance" between researchers and donors, Bioethics, forthcoming.
• (with P.P. Di Fiore) Deliberative Ethics in a Biomedical Institution. An Example of Integration Between Science and Ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, 36(2010), pp. 407-408.
• Death and Transplantation: Let's Try To Get Things Methodologically Straight, Bioethics, 21 (2007), pp. 32-40.
• Il limite e il ribelle. Etica, naturalismo, darwinismo (The Limit and the Rebel. Ethics, Naturalism, Darwinism), Raffaello Cortina, Milano 2003.
• (con G. De Anna, U. Vincenti), Individuo e persona. Tre saggi su chi siamo (Individual and Person. Three essays on who we are), Bompiani Milano 2007
• (with G. De Anna) The Four Faces of Omission. Ontology, Terminology, Epistemology, and Ethics, Philosophical Explorations, 9 (2006), pp. 276-293.
• (with S. Camporesi) Fearing a Non Existing Minotaur? The Ethical Challenges of Research on Cytoplasmic Hybrid Embryos, Journal of Medical Ethics, 34 (2008), pp. 821-825.
• (with P.P Di Fiore) A Defining Analysis of the Life and Death Dyad: Paving the Way for an Ethical Debate, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy,37 (2008), pp. 609-634
• Methodological Considerations About The Ethical And Social Implications Of Protocells, in M.A. Bedau, E. Parke (eds.), The Ethics of Protocells: Moral and Social Implications of Creating Life in the Laboratory, MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.), 2009, pp. 333-347.

Philosophy of Physics

• (ed. by G.Boniolo) Filosofia della fisica (Philosophy of Physics), B. Mondadori, Milano 1997.
• (with F. Gonella) Quantum Mechanics and Imagery: a Hermeneutical Approach, Foundations of Physics, 21(1991), 845-853.
• Theory and Experiment. The Case of Eõtvõs' Experiments, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 43(1992), 459-486.
• (with F. de Felice) On the Philosophical Foundations of Measurements in General Relativity, Foundations of Physics, 30 (2000), pp. 1629-1641.
• (with C. Petrovich, W.Pisent) Notes On The Philosophical Status Of Nuclear Physics, Foundations of Science, 7(2002), pp. 425-452.
• (ed. with P. Budinich and M. Trobok ) Mathematics and Physics: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Springer, Dordrecht 2005; it contains also: G. Boniolo, P. Budinich, The Role of Mathematics in Physical Sciences And Dirac's Methodological Revolution.

History of Philosophy and Varia

• (ed. by G.Boniolo, M. Dorato) La legge di natura. Analisi storico-critica di un concetto (The Law of Nature. Historical-critical Analysis of a Concept)McGraw-Hill, Milano 2001.
• (with P. Vidali) Strumenti per ragionare (Tools for reasoning), B. Mondadori, Milano 2002.
• Kant's Explication and Carnap's Explication: the redde rationem, International Philosophical Quarterly, 43(2003), 289-298.
• I modelli del mondo e il caso Galilei. Fra risultati empirici e questioni logico-epistemologiche (Models of the World and Galilei Affaire. Among Empirical Results and Logical Questions), Atti e Memorie dell'Accademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Olschki Firenze-Padova, 2004, 23-41. [
• (ed. by G.Boniolo) Laicità. Per una geografia delle nostre radici, Einaudi, Torino 2006
• 'Laws of nature: the Kantian approach', in M. Bitbol, P. Kerszberg, and J. Petitot (eds.) Constituting Objectivity: Transcendental Approaches of Modern Physics, Springer Verlag (Western Ontario Series in the Philosophy of Science), Forthcoming