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From the harmony to the tension: Helmuth Plessner and Kurt Goldstein's readings of Jakob von Uexküll. 从和谐到紧张：赫尔穆特-普莱斯纳（Helmuth Plessner）和库尔特-戈尔茨坦（Kurt Goldstein）对雅各布-冯-于克斯库尔（Jakob von Uexküll）的解读。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2024-01-25 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-024-00607-9

Matteo Pagan, Marco Dal Pozzolo

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Reappraising Claude Bernard's legacy: an introduction. 重新评价克劳德-贝尔纳的遗产：导言。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2024-01-25 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-024-00612-y

Laurent Loison

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Jacob Stegenga, Care & Cure. An introduction to philosophy of medicine, Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 2018, 288 pp. 雅各布-施特根加，《关怀与治疗》。医学哲学导论》，芝加哥：芝加哥大学出版社，2018 年，288 页。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2024-01-24 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-023-00605-3

Isabella Sarto-Jackson

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How should we distinguish between selectable and circumstantial traits? 我们应该如何区分可选择特征和环境特征？

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2024-01-11 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-023-00604-4

Ciprian Jeler

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When remediating one artifact results in another: control, confounders, and correction. 当补救一个人工制品导致另一个人工制品时：控制、混淆物和校正。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2024-01-11 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-023-00606-2

David Colaço

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How is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health research. How is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health research.

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2024-01-09 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-023-00603-5

Guido Caniglia, Federica Russo

{"title":"How is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health research.","authors":"Guido Caniglia, Federica Russo","doi":"10.1007/s40656-023-00603-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40656-023-00603-5","url":null,"abstract":"Participatory and collaborative approaches in sustainability science and public health research contribute to co-producing evidence that can support interventions by involving diverse societal actors that range from individual citizens to entire communities. However, existing philosophical accounts of evidence are not adequate to deal with the kind of evidence generated and used in such approaches. In this paper, we present an account of evidence as clues for action through participatory and collaborative research inspired by philosopher Susan Haack's theory of evidence. Differently from most accounts of evidence for use in policies and interventions, our account combines action-oriented (the how) and actors-oriented (the who) considerations. We build on Haack's theory and on the analysis of examples of participatory and collaborative research in sustainability science and public health research to flesh out six procedural criteria for the generation and mobilization of evidence in and from participatory research. Action-oriented criteria invite to look at evidence from a (a) foundherentist, (b) gradational and (c) quasi-holistic perspective. Actors-oriented criteria point out that evidence generation and utilization are (d) social, (e) personal, and (f) embedded. We suggest that these criteria may reinforce participatory and collaborative approaches to evidence co-production when addressing complex problems in sustainability science and public health allowing for the generation of a kind of practical objectivity.","PeriodicalId":56308,"journal":{"name":"History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences","volume":"46 1","pages":"4"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10776828/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139405457","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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On the nature of evolutionary explanations: a critical appraisal of Walter Bock's approach with a new revised proposal. 论进化解释的本质：对沃尔特-博克方法的批判性评价及新的修订建议。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2024-01-08 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-023-00601-7

Marcelo Domingos de Santis

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Resilience and the shift of paradigm in ecology: a new name for an old concept or a different explanatory tool? 复原力与生态学范式的转变：旧概念的新名称还是不同的解释工具？

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-023-00600-8

Lara Barbara

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Refusing epigenetics: indigeneity and the colonial politics of trauma 拒绝表观遗传学：土著性与创伤的殖民政治

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2023-12-18 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-023-00596-1

Jaya Keaney, Henrietta Byrne, Megan Warin, Emma Kowal

{"title":"Refusing epigenetics: indigeneity and the colonial politics of trauma","authors":"Jaya Keaney, Henrietta Byrne, Megan Warin, Emma Kowal","doi":"10.1007/s40656-023-00596-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-023-00596-1","url":null,"abstract":"Environmental epigenetics is increasingly employed to understand the health outcomes of communities who have experienced historical trauma and structural violence. Epigenetics provides a way to think about traumatic events and sustained deprivation as biological “exposures” that contribute to ill-health across generations. In Australia, some Indigenous researchers and clinicians are embracing epigenetic science as a framework for theorising the slow violence of colonialism as it plays out in intergenerational legacies of trauma and illness. However, there is dispute, contention, and caution as well as enthusiasm among these research communities.In this article, we trace strategies of “refusal” (Simpson, 2014) in response to epigenetics in Indigenous contexts. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Australia with researchers and clinicians in Indigenous health, we explore how some construct epigenetics as useless knowledge and a distraction from implementing anti-colonial change, rather than a tool with which to enact change. Secondly, we explore how epigenetics narrows definitions of colonial harm through the optic of molecular trauma, reproducing conditions in which Indigenous people are made intelligible through a lens of “damaged” bodies. Faced with these two concerns, many turn away from epigenetics altogether, refusing its novelty and supposed benefit for Indigenous health equity and resisting the pull of postgenomics.","PeriodicalId":56308,"journal":{"name":"History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences","volume":"140 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138741841","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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A fetus in the world: Physiology, epidemiology, and the making of fetal origins of adult disease 世界上的胎儿生理学、流行病学和成人疾病的胎儿起源的形成

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2023-12-13 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-023-00598-z

Tatjana Buklijas, Salim Al-Gailani

{"title":"A fetus in the world: Physiology, epidemiology, and the making of fetal origins of adult disease","authors":"Tatjana Buklijas, Salim Al-Gailani","doi":"10.1007/s40656-023-00598-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-023-00598-z","url":null,"abstract":"Since the late 1980s, the fetal origins of adult disease, from 2003 developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD), has stimulated significant interest in and an efflorescence of research on the long-term effects of the intrauterine environment. From the start, this field has been interdisciplinary, using experimental animal, clinical and epidemiological tools. As the influence of DOHaD on public health and policy expanded, it has drawn criticism for reducing the complex social and physical world of early life to women’s reproductive bodies as drivers of intergenerational ills. This paper explains this narrowing of focus in terms of a formative and consequential exchange between David Barker, the British epidemiologist whose work is credited with establishing the field, and the discipline of fetal physiology. We suggest that fetal physiologists were a crucial constituency of support for Barker’s hypothesis about early life origins of disease. Their collaborations with Barker helped secure and sustain the theory amid considerable controversy. The trajectory of DOHaD and its focus on the maternal body can be understood, we argue, as a consequence of this alliance, which brought together two distinct conceptualizations of the intrauterine environment, one from epidemiology and the other from fetal physiology. Along the way, we trace the histories of these conceptualizations, both of which were products of mid-to-late twentieth century British science, and show how Barker’s early emphasis on social and economic conditions was superseded by a narrower focus on physiological mechanisms acting upon the autonomous fetus.","PeriodicalId":56308,"journal":{"name":"History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138630823","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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