History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences最新文献

Ediacaran enigma: uncertainty and underdetermination in precambrian paleontology. 埃迪卡拉之谜：前寒武纪古生物学的不确定性和不确定性。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00680-8

Max Dresow

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Valuating marine knowledge: Heterogeneous collaborations at the Concarneau marine station. 评估海洋知识：Concarneau海洋站的异质合作。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00683-5

Tanja Bogusz

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Understanding organisms by intuiting life: Kant, Goethe, and Steiner. 通过对生命的直觉来理解有机体：康德、歌德和施泰纳。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00681-7

Christoph J Hueck

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Correction: Choreographies of co-modification: instrumentizing cod for immunology and the economy. 更正：协同修饰的编排：为免疫学和经济工具化cod。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00685-3

Tone Druglitrø, Silje Rebecca Morsman, Kristin Asdal

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Kostas kampourakis, How we get Mendel wrong, and why it matters. Challenging the narrative of Mendelian genetics, 2024, Abingdon: CRC press. Kostas kampourakis，我们是如何误解孟德尔的，以及为什么它很重要。挑战孟德尔遗传学的叙述，2024年，阿宾登：CRC出版社。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00686-2

Nils Roll-Hansen

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Artistic Value as a New Paradigm to Promote Ocean Conservation. 艺术价值：推动海洋保育的新范例。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-07-02 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00679-1

Juliette Bessette, Thierry Pérez

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Seeing the unseen: problematic narratives and the microbial worlds of the deep-sea. 看不见的：有问题的叙述和深海的微生物世界。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00682-6

Teun Joshua Brandt

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Rethinking the history of microbiology: new actors, geographies, places of knowledge, and ecologies. 重新思考微生物学的历史：新的角色，地理，知识的地方，和生态。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00678-2

Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva, Mathilde Gallay-Keller

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Inferential schema in Akkadian diagnosis: the case of Ah̬h̬ a ¯ zu. 阿卡德语诊断中的推理图式：以ah_() _（）为例。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-06-12 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00674-6

Cristina Barés Gómez

{"title":"<ArticleTitle xmlns:ns0=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\">Inferential schema in Akkadian diagnosis: the case of Ah̬h̬ <ns0:math> <ns0:mover><ns0:mrow><ns0:mi>a</ns0:mi></ns0:mrow> <ns0:mrow><ns0:mo>¯</ns0:mo></ns0:mrow> </ns0:mover> </ns0:math> zu.","authors":"Cristina Barés Gómez","doi":"10.1007/s40656-025-00674-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40656-025-00674-6","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this work is to analyze Akkadian medical diagnosis by examining the reasoning involved in the process. The analysis highlights the importance of uncertainty in the timeline of inference. While prognosis pertains to the future, diagnosis concerns something different; it relates to what has already occurred. It is proposed that the analysis would be incomplete without considering the roles of both the past and present within the inferential framework. Ancient medical diagnosis must be understood by accounting for the entire reasoning structure, which is not captured in a single text, for which reason it is necessary to analyze both the diagnostic and therapeutic kind. This work draws on translations of these texts by Assyriologists. Ancient medical science needs to be studied from multiple perspectives, and the logic and philosophy of science can help to gain a better understanding of its practice and methodology.","PeriodicalId":56308,"journal":{"name":"History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences","volume":"47 2","pages":"30"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12162719/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144276824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Two logics of experiment in biology & medicine: mechanistic/pathway versus populational. 生物学和医学实验的两种逻辑：机械/途径与人口。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00675-5

Shiping Tang

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