Biomedical humanities and epistemology

Selected papers

Philosophy of the Life Sciences

2003

• 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.

2004

• (with M. Carrara) On Biological Identity, Biology and Philosophy, 19(2004), pp. 443-457.

2005

• 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.

2006

• (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.

2008

• (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 Mondadori, Milano 2008

2010

• (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.

forthcoming

• (with G. Testa), 'The Identity of Living Beings, Epigenetics, and The Modesty of Philosophy', Erkenntnis, DOI 10.1007/s10670-011-9308-9.

Ethics & Bioethics

2003

• Il limite e il ribelle. Etica, naturalismo, darwinismo (The Limit and the Rebel. Ethics, Naturalism, Darwinism), Raffaello Cortina, Milano 2003.

2006

• (with G. De Anna) The Four Faces of Omission. Ontology, Terminology, Epistemology, and Ethics, Philosophical Explorations, 9 (2006), pp. 276-293.

2007

• (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
• Death and Transplantation: Let's Try To Get Things Methodologically Straight, Bioethics, 21 (2007), pp. 32-40.

2008

• (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

2009

• 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.

2010

• (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.

2011

• Il pulpito e la piazza. Democrazia, deliberazione e scienze della vita, Raffaello Cortina, Milano 2011. English translation by Springer forthcoming (Democracy, deliberation and the Life sciences).

forthcoming

• (with P.P. Di Fiore, S. Pece) Trusted Consent and Research Biobanks. Towards a "new alliance" between researchers and donors, Bioethics, forthcoming; doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2010.01823.x.
• (with T. Bruni, M. Mameli, G. Pravettoni), ‘Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening in Veneto (Italy) - An Ethical Analysis’, Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, DOI 10.1007/s11019-011-9347-7.

General Philosophy of Science and Formal Epistemology

2003

• (with P. Vidali) Introduzione alla filosofia della scienza (Introduction to the Philosophy of Science), B. Mondadori, Milano 2003.

2007

• On Scientific Representations From Kant to a New Philosophy of Science, Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.

2008

• (with S. Valentini) Vaguennes, Kant, and Topology. A Study of Formal Epistemology, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 37 (2008), pp.141-168.

2009

• (with R. Faraldo, A. Saggion) On Spatial and Temporal ex mensura Boundaries, Foundations of Science, 14(2009), pp.181-193.

2011

• (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, 2011, pp. 502-525.

forthcoming

• (with S. Valentini), ‘Objects. A Study in Kantian Formal Epistemology’, Notre Dame Journal of Formal logic, forthcoming.

History of Philosophy and Varia

2001

• (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.

2002

• (with P. Vidali) Strumenti per ragionare (Tools for reasoning), B. Mondadori, Milano 2002 (New Edition 2011).

2003

• Kant's Explication and Carnap's Explication: the redde rationem, International Philosophical Quarterly, 43(2003), 289-298.

2004

• 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.

2006

• (ed. by G.Boniolo) Laicità. Per una geografia delle nostre radici, Einaudi, Torino 2006

2009

• ‘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), 2009, pp. 183-201.