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In search of the microbial path to Terroir: a place-based history of the ecologization of French cheese microbiology, 1990-2000s.

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00669-3

Élise Demeulenaere

{"title":"In search of the microbial path to Terroir: a place-based history of the ecologization of French cheese microbiology, 1990-2000s.","authors":"Élise Demeulenaere","doi":"10.1007/s40656-025-00669-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-025-00669-3","url":null,"abstract":"At the crossroads between food studies and science and technology studies, this paper analyzes the role of laboratories located within traditional cheese territories in the ecologization of cheese microbiology in France at the turn of the twentieth century. The paper argues that their connectedness with Protected Designation of Origin raw-milk cheese organizations advocating for a strong understanding of terroir played a key role in challenging the modern strain-by-strain approach and fostering a shift towards a new research object: microbial communities in their ecologies. Modernization and standardization in cheese production from the 1950s onwards laid indeed on the improvement of hygiene to get \"cleaner\" milks, and on lab research on microbial strains to develop selected starter cultures. This led to a dramatic loss of microbial abundance within raw milks, which progressively provoked milk processing issues, as well as a loss of cheese typicality, an issue for place-based cheeses. To face it, the modernist approach promoted more laboratorial research on microbial strains to develop new starter cultures and the diversification of microbial collections, within an ex-situ conservation framework. In contrast, microbiologists conducting applied research for raw-milk terroir cheeses investigated environmental microbial reservoirs, microbial fluxes, as well as farming practices that favor \"natural seeding\" and enrich milk native microflora. A new approach emerged, namely \"practice-driven microbial ecology\" (écologie microbienne dirigée), which enacts the dynamic and ubiquitous properties of microbial life. The paper offers a situated account on the \"microbial (ecology) turn\" described by other authors, highlighting the ecological approach developed in the 1990s-2000s by French microbiologists in search of \"the microbial path to terroir\".","PeriodicalId":56308,"journal":{"name":"History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences","volume":"47 2","pages":"22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143733278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Death in advance or people living with dementia? Extending the philosophical discourse of Schweda and Jongsma through the persistence of self and other strengths.

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00664-8

Steven R Sabat, Alison Warren

{"title":"Death in advance or people living with dementia? Extending the philosophical discourse of Schweda and Jongsma through the persistence of self and other strengths.","authors":"Steven R Sabat, Alison Warren","doi":"10.1007/s40656-025-00664-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-025-00664-8","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents an extension of an article previously featured in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences by Schweda and Jongsma (History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2022), who aptly (1) critiqued the \"Zombification\" of people living with dementia by reviewing the historic and philosophic origins of this damaging metaphor and (2) offered a life course perspective to highlight the ethical implications related to biomedicine and the life sciences. Herein, we aim to build upon and constructively critique the important discourse offered by Schweda and Jongsma by (1) presenting a transdisciplinary perspective highlighting many important remaining social and cognitive abilities of people living with dementia that (2) further informs philosophical discussion and (3) provides ways of helping people diagnosed as well as formal and informal caregivers to live with dementia rather than enduring the damaging and incorrect \"living death\" notion, and its ramifications, of the syndrome. In the process, we will explore many inherent harms associated with the \"zombie-like\" construction of the syndrome: harms that entail dysfunctional treatment of people living with dementia. Specifically, we will draw upon evidence from psychology, sociology, philosophy, neurology, and neuroscience, to provide an integrated, whole-person perspective that adds specific dimensions to the life-course perspective and support the necessary multifaceted interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and clinical collaborations for this complex issue.","PeriodicalId":56308,"journal":{"name":"History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences","volume":"47 2","pages":"21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143702292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Rethinking psychiatric symptoms: the role of measurement heterogeneity in diagnostic validity.

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00659-5

Daniel Montero-Espinoza

{"title":"Rethinking psychiatric symptoms: the role of measurement heterogeneity in diagnostic validity.","authors":"Daniel Montero-Espinoza","doi":"10.1007/s40656-025-00659-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40656-025-00659-5","url":null,"abstract":"The current research environment in psychiatry is marked by the discredit of the main psychiatric classifications. The common narrative about the DSM holds that the current diagnostic categories lack diagnostic validity. This claim is supported by the high degrees of diagnostic heterogeneity and comorbidity among diagnosed patients. Current attempts to overcome these problems emphasize the need to develop alternative ways of investigating psychopathology that no longer rely on the DSM categories. In this line, transdiagnostic research initiatives such as RDoC promote the abandonment of the DSM categories while still relying on traditional psychiatric symptoms. This reliance assumes that symptoms do not pose similar problems to the ones commonly ascribed to the DSM categories. In this article, I challenge what I call the \"received view of symptoms\" and argue that a closer look at symptom measurement reveals that different measurements of purportedly the same symptom differ from each other in ways that have an impact on both psychiatric research and clinical practice. Furthermore, I show that psychiatric symptoms are not \"neutral\" vis-à-vis the DSM categories. To illustrate my points, I use a case study from the history of the measurement of anhedonia. Based on this case study, I argue that in addition to diagnostic heterogeneity, there is also symptom measurement heterogeneity. Finally, I suggest a reassessment of the common narrative about the DSM's lack of diagnostic validity in light of my case study and argue that closer attention should be given to symptoms.","PeriodicalId":56308,"journal":{"name":"History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences","volume":"47 2","pages":"20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11923028/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143665422","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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"The nodules are alive and well on the sea floor": deep ocean minerals, invertebrate traces, and multispecies histories of abyssal environments.

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00668-4

Jonathan M Galka

{"title":"\"The nodules are alive and well on the sea floor\": deep ocean minerals, invertebrate traces, and multispecies histories of abyssal environments.","authors":"Jonathan M Galka","doi":"10.1007/s40656-025-00668-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-025-00668-4","url":null,"abstract":"For mid-twentieth century scientists, industrialists, politicians, and lawyers, manganese (polymetallic) nodules were singular and valuable condensations of complex and little-understood biogeochemical processes. This paper examines how those processes were made tractable objects of interdisciplinary scientific inquiry in the mid-twentieth century, and how the study of those processes required the importation of biological and ecological concepts into the research of geochemistry at sea. Though largely falling away by the 1980s, the study of eukaryotic life on and in nodules was a lively area of research after the International Geophysical Year (1957-1958) and especially during the 1970s, when the US National Science Foundation funded a large, inter-university program on the study of manganese nodules to answer basic questions about ore formation and origin. Sorting out how deep-sea rocks generated and grew into valuable deposits required parsing life's patterns-rhythmic growth, cycles of metabolism, evolution, death and organic decay-from geological processes. I story how scientists came to interpret nodules as created and maintained amid hybrid biological-geological agencies. Building on work in multispecies and animal history, I articulate a multispecies methodology for taking mid-century nodule science as shot through with interspecies encounter, producing an archive co-authored with invertebrates. Both enabled and frustrated by organisms, abyssal resources and environments emerged into legibility together, within frames of oceanic resource extraction. Given renewed contemporary exigencies of deep-sea mining, this article reaches further across literary criticism, more-than-human history, and science & technology studies to expand the methodological terrain on which marine multispecies histories might draw.","PeriodicalId":56308,"journal":{"name":"History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences","volume":"47 2","pages":"18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143659821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Romanticizing evolutionary biology : Gregory Rupik. Remapping biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder. Romanticizing evolution. 2024. Routledge, London.

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00667-5

Kevin N Lala

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The Bay of Porto Paone: the first "tiny underwater nature reserve" in the Gulf of Naples (1960-1966).

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00665-7

Alessandra Passariello

{"title":"The Bay of Porto Paone: the first \"tiny underwater nature reserve\" in the Gulf of Naples (1960-1966).","authors":"Alessandra Passariello","doi":"10.1007/s40656-025-00665-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-025-00665-7","url":null,"abstract":"From 1960 to 1966, the Bay of Porto Paone, a volcanic crater located on the islet of Nisida, was home to the first \"tiny underwater nature reserve\" of the Gulf of Naples. The concession of the stretch of water was requested by the Stazione Zoologica di Napoli (in 1982 renamed Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn), a marine biological institution traditionally devoted to laboratory studies of fundamental biological phenomena, which at the time aimed at strengthening its international visibility as a place for field ecological research. The first part of the paper contextualizes this local event in the broader international trend towards the development of ecological sciences and the rising call for field sites as essential infrastructures for ecological research. The second part reconstructs the legal, administrative and scientific practices that made it possible the establishment of an \"underwater reserve\" in the Bay of Porto Paone and describes the main research projects carried out there. The last part of the paper goes one step beyond historiography and addresses issues related to the importance of historical narratives on past place-based research projects for contemporary studies in historical ecology.","PeriodicalId":56308,"journal":{"name":"History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences","volume":"47 2","pages":"17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143652283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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From aesthetics to anthropology: ideal beauty in Camper's (1722-1789) theory of race.

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00661-x

Jorge L García, Xiaoyu Wang

{"title":"From aesthetics to anthropology: ideal beauty in Camper's (1722-1789) theory of race.","authors":"Jorge L García, Xiaoyu Wang","doi":"10.1007/s40656-025-00661-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40656-025-00661-x","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of providing an objective characterization of human variation have been often intermingled with the questionable task of providing scientific grounds for racism. The source of this confusion lies in the misconception that Petrus Camper's (1722-1789) theory of the facial line demonstrates the superiority of the Caucasian racial type. In this paper, we argue that the invention of the facial line, far from obeying Euro-centric aesthetic bias, grounded Camper's neutrality with respect to any claim of racial superiority. This can be understood by analyzing the representational function of the facial line in the light of the aesthetic underpinnings of Camper's overall theory. Thus, we show that the theory of the facial line rests upon the fundamental assumption that if a representation faithfully captures certain aesthetic properties of its target, then it also represents objective physical properties thereof. To unpack how this principle underlies the construction of the theory of the facial line, we analyze the influence of Johan Joachim Winckelmann's (1717-1768) conception of Ideal Beauty on Camper's craniological studies. The features of correctness, neutrality, and duality which Winckelmann ascribes to the Ideal Beauty informed the discovery of the facial line as the appropriate key for the anthropometric characterization of human variation. From this it is argued that a consistent interpretation of Camper's work must consider his representation of human variation as a preorder, not a hierarchy, in the logical space of the facial angle.","PeriodicalId":56308,"journal":{"name":"History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences","volume":"47 1","pages":"15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143607317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Tamar Novick, Milk and honey: technologies of plenty in the making of a Holy Land, Cambridge, Massachusetts: the MIT Press, 2023.

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00662-w

Hayley Birss

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Pierre-Olivier Méthot (ed.), Philosophy, history and biology: essays in honour of Jean Gayon, Cham: Springer Verlag, 2023.

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00663-9

Emiliano Sfara

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The Chicago school of ecology's evolutionary superorganism and the clements-wright connection.

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-024-00652-4

Philippe Huneman

{"title":"The Chicago school of ecology's evolutionary superorganism and the clements-wright connection.","authors":"Philippe Huneman","doi":"10.1007/s40656-024-00652-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40656-024-00652-4","url":null,"abstract":"\"Organicism\" often refers to the idea that ecosystems or communities are, or are like, organisms. Often implicit in early twentieth century, it has been theorized by Clements, relying on physiological and developmental concepts. I investigate the fate of this idea in major attempts of a theoretical synthesis of ecology in the first part of the twentieth century. I first consider Bioecology (1939), by Clements and Shelford, which elaborates clementsian organicism as a general framework for plant and animal ecology. Then I investigate the major animal ecology treatise of the Chicago school ecologists C. Allee, T. Park, O. Park, K. Schmidt and A. Emerson, Principles of animal ecology (1949). I show how they shifted organicism from physiology to evolution, synthesizing inspiration from both Clements and Sewall Wright, got their inspiration in evolutionary biology, and built a systematic correspondence between cells, organisms and communities. I claim that the focus on populations allowed them to apply Darwinian insights at the level of communities. Finally I argue that this theoretical synthesis fell apart in the next decade because of the rise of density-dependent accounts of population regulation.","PeriodicalId":56308,"journal":{"name":"History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences","volume":"47 1","pages":"12"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11835916/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143451110","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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