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Biodeconstruction
(March 2018)
Jacques Derrida and the Life Sciences
Francesco Vitale - Author
Mauro Senatore - Translator
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Analyzes Derrida’s 1975 seminar “La vie la mort” as a deconstruction of biology with relevance to his work more broadly.
In Biodeconstruction,Francesco Vitale demonstrates the key role that the question of life plays in Jacques Derrida’s work. In the seminar La vie la mort (1975), Derrida engages closely with the life sciences, especially biology and evolution theory. Connecting this ...(Read More) |
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Germs of Death
(March 2018)
The Problem of Genesis in Jacques Derrida
Mauro Senatore - Author
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An analysis of Derrida’s early work engaging Plato, Hegel, and the life sciences.
Germs of Death explores the idea of genesis, or dissemination, in the early work of Jacques Derrida. Looking at Derrida’s published and unpublished work from “Force and Signification” in 1963 to Glas in 1974, Mauro Senatore traces the development of Derrida’s understanding of genesis both linguistically ...(Read More) |
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Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine
(April 2014)
Kristin Zeiler - Editor
Lisa Folkmarson Käll - Editor
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Phenomenological insights into health issues relating to bodily self-experience, normality and deviance, self-alienation, and objectification.
Situated at the intersection of phenomenology of medicine and feminist phenomenology, this volume provides insights into medical practices such as surgical operations, organ transplants, dentistry, midwifery, and psychiatry. The contributors make clear the relevance of feminist phenomeno...(Read More) |
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Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences
(March 2014)
Susanne Lettow - Editor
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Investigates the impact of theories of reproduction and heredity on the emerging concepts of race and gender at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.
Focusing on the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this volume highlights the scientific and philosophical inquiry into heredity and reproduction and the consequences of these developing ideas on understandings of race...(Read More) |
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Hans Jonas's Ethic of Responsibility
(December 2013)
From Ontology to Ecology
Theresa Morris - Author
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Articulates the fundamental importance of ontology to Hans Jonas’s environmental ethics.
Despite his tremendous impact on the German Green Party and the influence of his work on contemporary debates about stem cell research in the United States, Hans Jonas’s (1903–1993) philosophical contributions have remained partially obscured. In particular, the ontological grounding he gives his ethics, based ...(Read More) |
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Plants as Persons
(May 2011)
A Philosophical Botany
Matthew Hall - Author
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Challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of plants.
Plants are people too? Not exactly, but in this work of philosophical botany Matthew Hall challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of plants, arguing that they are other-than-human persons. Plants constitute the bulk of our visible biomass, underpin all natural ecosystems, and make life on Earth possible. Yet plants are considered passive...(Read More) |
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Evolution's First Philosopher
(January 2007)
John Dewey and the Continuity of Nature
Jerome A. Popp - Author
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Examines John Dewey’s ideas in the context of evolutionary theory.
John Dewey was the first philosopher to recognize that Darwin’s thesis about natural selection not only required us to change how we think about ourselves and the life forms around us, but also required a markedly different approach to philosophy. Evolution’s First Philosopher shows how Dewey’s arguments arose from his...(Read More) |
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Darwin and the Nature of Species
(November 2006)
David N. Stamos - Author
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Examines Darwin’s concept of species in a philosophical context.
Since the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species, the concept of “species” in biology has been widely debated, with its precise definition far from settled. And yet, amazingly, there have been no books devoted to Charles Darwin’s thinking on the term until now. David N. Stamos gives us a groundbreaking, historical ...(Read More) |
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Leaving Us to Wonder
(December 2004)
An Essay on the Questions Science Can't Ask
Linda Wiener - Author
Ramsey Eric Ramsey - Author
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Explores the larger social, political, and philosophical contexts in which the current vitriolic science vs. anti-science debates occur.
This exciting collaboration between a biologist and a philosopher explores the meaning of the scientific worldview and how it plays out in our everyday lives. The authors investigate alternatives to scientism, the view that science is the proper and exclusive foundation for thinking ...(Read More) |
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Owning the Genome
(March 2004)
A Moral Analysis of DNA Patenting
David B. Resnik - Author
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A clear, introductory overview of the issues surrounding gene patenting.
DNA patenting has emerged as a hot topic in science policy and bioethics as private companies and government agencies spend billions of dollars on genetic research and development in a race to identify, sequence, and analyze DNA from human, animal, and plant species. David B. Resnik's Owning the Genome explores the ethical, social, philoso...(Read More) |
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