Overview
- Proposes a new theoretical approach to biology, i.e. relational biology
- Conceives science for the first time as starting from a principle of variation
- Understands biology as preserving the singularity of each living being
Part of the book series: Human Perspectives in Health Sciences and Technology (HPHST, volume 6)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Biological Relational Space
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Biological Times and Organizations
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book proposes the foundation of the relational approach to biology, rejecting the deterministic and reductionist approach of molecular biology. Although biology has made enormous progress in the last seventy years, onto genesis is still conceived as a “revelation” of information (DNA). Recovering the geometric tradition, relational biology conceives scientific and epistemological tools (cause, probability, space etc.) of science in a new way. If probabilistic biology and organicism still proposes a biology based on physics, with a fundamental invariant, relational biology is based on variation: its fundamental invariant is variation, one of the most important elements of life. This is an indispensable book for academics who consider biology from a new theoretical approach, in particular for those working in the domains of cancer, ontogenesis and evolution.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Angelo Mariucci was born in Sulmona, Italy, in 1978 and obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy in Pisa in 2010. Over the last years he taught and worked in the Universidade Estadual de Campinas and in the Universidade Federal de Pelotas. He scurrently affiliated to the Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Professor Marinucci’s main research interests lie in theoretical biology, history of science as well as in its applications to ethics . He published articles and books on the history and philosophy of physics and biology (Marinucci 2011, Marinucci, Salvia, Bellotti 2021). Starting from the collaboration with the CIM ("Complexité et information morphologiques" CNRS - École Normale Supérieure, Paris), his main interest lies in elaborating a biology not reducible to physics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theoretical Principles of Relational Biology
Book Subtitle: Space, Time, Organization
Authors: Angelo Marinucci
Series Title: Human Perspectives in Health Sciences and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39374-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39373-0Published: 28 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39376-1Due: 29 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-39374-7Published: 27 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2661-8915
Series E-ISSN: 2661-8923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 130
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Biology, Ethics