Davide Vecchi

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Davide Vecchi

Bio || Bio

Davide Vecchi studied philosophy at the University of Bologna (Italy) and then obtained the Ph.D. at the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method of the London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom). Before joining the CFCUL, Davide had been Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (Austria) and Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the Universidad de Santiago (Chile).

Davide is interested both in theoretical issues in biology as well as in the way contemporary developmental biology, evolutionary biology and microbiology inform philosophical debates concerning, for instance, causation, biological individuality and free will.

Áreas de Interesse || Current Research

  1. The evolutionary origin of sentience.
  2. The nature of biological variation.
  3. Symbiosis and its role in development and evolution.
  4. The role of organismal behaviour in evolution.
  5. The biology of human nature.

Situação no CFCUL || Position at the CFCUL

Membro intregado

 

Grupos de Investigação || Research Groups

Filosofia das Ciências da Vida (Membro)

 

Linhas Temáticas || Thematic Lines

 

 

 

 

Contactos || Contacts

davide.s.vecchi@gmail.com

Produção Científica (Selecção) || Scientific Production (Selection)

Publicações || Publications

  1. Mutational randomness as conditional independence and the experimental vindication of mutational Lamarckism (with Pablo Razeto-Barry); Biological Reviews; ISSN 1469-185X; 2015
  2. Epigénesis y preformacionismo: radiografía de una antinomia inconclusa (with Isaac Hernández); Scientiae Studia (v. 13, n. 3); ISSN 1678-3166; 2015.
  3. A soul of truth in things erroneous: Popper's "amateurish" evolutionary philosophy in light of contemporary biology (with Lorenzo Baravalle). History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 36:525-545, 2015.
  4. De humanos y líquenes. Scientiae Studia,12 (2):331-357. 2014.
  5. The epistemological resilience of the concept of morphogenetic field (with Isaac Hernandez). In Minelli, A. & Pradeu, T. (eds.) Towards a Theory of Development. Oxford University Press. 2014.
  6. The Trouble with Natural Genetic Engineering. Biological Theory, 7 (1):80-88. 2013.
  7. Taking Biology Seriously : Neo-Darwinism and its Many Challenges. In Brinkworth, M.H. & Weinert, F. (eds.), Evolution 2.0: Implications of Darwinism in Philosophy and the Social and Natural Sciences. Springer. 2012.
  8. Risky Business. Biological Theory, 5 (2):187-193. 2010 .

Reuniões Científicas || Scientific Meetings

Comunicações / Talks

 

  1. "Of molecules, fields and cells" no âmbito do "International Workshop in Philosophy of Physics and Philosophy of Biology" (http://ificc.cl/node/510), Instituto de Filosofía y Ciencias de la Complejidad (IFICC), Santiago, Chile; 5 January 2016.
  2. Autopoiesis or symbiopoiesis?; Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid; 23 November 2015.
  3. Deconstructing and reconstructing human nature Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico; 17 September 2015.
  4. Modus Lamarck (presented with Lorenzo Baravalle); 2 Congreso de la Asociación Iberoamericana de Filosofía de la Biología Valle de Bravo, Mexico; 9 September 2015.
  5. Deconstructing Human Nature; 2 Congreso de la Asociación Iberoamericana de Filosofía de la Biología Valle de Bravo, Mexico; 8 September 2015.
  6. A symbiotic account of biological individuality 8th Congress of the International Symbiosis Society; University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; 17 July 2015.
  7. Primitive enactivism and the evolutionary origin of sentience: searching for the evidence. Internacional Workshop Arguing with Dan Hutto, organised by IFILNOVA (FCSH/NOVA), Lisbon, Portugal, 17 June 2015.
  8. Complejidad biologica y ortogenesis XV Jornadas Rolando Chuaqui Kettlun , Universidad Catolica, Santiago, Chile, 17 October 2014.
  9. El origen de la subjetividad: una perspectiva biopsiquista, Hexagésimo octavo Paseo por la Complejidad, IFICC, Santiago, Chile, 16 October 2014.
  10. El origen de la subjetividad "Humanos e Animais: Os Limites da Humanidade", Instituto de Estudos Avançados, Universidad de Sao Paulo, Brasil, 30 September 2014.
  11. Internal panteleology, accidental combinogenesis and evolutionary contingency, Evolution and historical explanation: contingency, convergence and teleology, St Anne’s College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, 19 July 2014.
  12. Towards an heteroplastic view of biological individuality, Redefining the Self: Biological and Philosophical Perspectives, Sorbonne University, Paris, France, 23 June 2014.
  13. The ineffability of organisational closure, “Naturaliser les normes biologique?”, Universite de Toulouse 2 Le Mirail, France, 14 February 2014.
  14. Human nature and the symbiotic view of life, International Symposium on Biopolitics and Bioethics, University of Santiago, Chile, 25 September 2013.
  15. Mutational Lamarckism and mutational randomness as conditional independence (with Pablo Razeto-Barry), ISHPSSB 2013, Montpellier, France, 8 July 2013.
  16. From slot machines to pangenomes, Horizontal and Vertical Transmission and Micro- and Macroevolutionary Patterns of Biological and Sociocultural Evolution, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, 27 May 2013.