PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (DIETELMO PIEVANI)
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A Padova
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Padova
Examination is oral and aims at the evaluation of both scientific and philosophical skills acquired, through open-ended questions and requests for argumentation and comparison of different theses and models. The examination (in Italian or in English) is divided into a common part and a monographic part. The common part includes textbooks, books and articles that provide a general overview of the contents of the discipline. The examination also provides the monographic choice, by the students, of one of the cases discussed during the classes, on which a specific study with further bibliography (usually two chapters of books or additional papers) is required. Attendance is mandatory, due to the teaching by interactive methods and case-studies. Students unable to attend a percentage of classes (anyway no more than 50%) have to agree the attendance with the teacher.
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The general themes in philosophy of life science will also be developed through the analysis of the logic of scientific discovery in Charles Darwin's work, extrapolated from his unpublished private texts, such as the Notebooks of Transmutation, and the working papers that led to the peculiar argumentative structure of the Origin of Species in its six editions. Darwin's thoughts, assumptions and insights, in their typical theoretical pluralism, will become another starting point to discuss evolutionary issues debated in the scientific literature today. Among the others:
- Notions of "species";
- Tempo and mode of speciation (gradualism and punctuationism);
- Variation and inheritance;
- Genetics and epigenetics;
- Evolution, ecology and biogeography;
- Functional factors and structural factors (adaptations and constraints) in evolutionary change;
- Common descent (Tree Thinking) and natural selection;
- Explanatory power of selective mechanisms;
- Units of evolution and levels of selection (the debate about the evolution of altruism);
- Relationships between ontogeny and phylogeny;
- The role of "chance" in evolution;
- Teleology and contingency;
- Darwin's risky predictions;
- Extended Evolutionary Synthesis.
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PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (DIETELMO PIEVANI)