El olvido del organismo: un análisis de las concepciones acerca de lo vivo y su valor en la biología actual

¿Qué es la filosofía de la biología organismal?

“…of the potential meta-scienti c extensions that remain to be addressed could be: assessing the role given to organisms within scienti c explanations and theories in the various elds that make up the contemporary research landscape in biology and biomedicine; envisioning the need for a methodological restructuring of modeling practices in order to more accurately re ect the epistemically central role of organisms and their activities in our understanding of the phenomena studied (e.g., the case of model organisms; see Ankeny and Leonelli, 2021); examining the place of organismality within current debates on individuality in the biological and biomedical sciences; discussing how organismal agency might t into naturalist positions and debates on life-mind continuity (see Gambarotto and Nahas, 2023); rethinking some bioethical debates, for instance, on the value of life or the notion of 'death,' that arise from distinct concepts of 'organism' (see Rendón and Klier, 2017;Nowak and Stencel, 2022); and becoming aware of the possible conceptual and epistemological limitations of a scienti c practice based on the organism as the central epistemic and ontological unit of biology, thus avoiding falling into a rei cation regime similar to that committed by population thinking. In short, multiple epistemological, ontological, heuristic, methodological, pragmatic and axiological issues related to organisms as loci of analysis in the life sciences remain to be thoroughly articulated and linked.…”