Canguilhem and Continental Philosophy of Biology

Abstract

History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences is a space for dialogue between life scientists, philosophers and historians -welcoming both essays about the principles and domains of cutting-edge research in the life sciences, novel ways of tackling philosophical issues raised by the life sciences, as well as original research about the history of methods, ideas and tools, which constitute the genealogy of our current ways of understanding living phenomena.The series is interested in receiving book proposals that • are aimed at academic audience of graduate level and up • combine historical and/or philosophical and/or theoretical studies with work from disciplines within the life sciences broadly conceived, including (but not limited to) the following areas: • Anatomy &

¿Qué es la filosofía de la biología organismal?

“…Moving on to another subject, as the article by Alfredo Marcos shows, the philosophy of organismal biology can also dialogue with "bio-philosophy" (see, for example, Köchy, 2008) and with what has recently been called "continental philosophy of biology," under which the re ections on organisms and the phenomenon of the living by authors such as Georges Canguilhem, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Helmuth Plessner, Kurt Goldstein and Hans Jonas, among others, are emphasized (see the chapters in Bianco et al , 2023, e.g., Gandol , 2023; see also Michelini et al, 2018). Marcos focuses on the concept of "organism" in the work of Hans Jonas, exploring the existing connections with other areas that structure the in uential work of this German philosopher.…”