Vanessa Triviño

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Rey Juan Carlos University

In this paper, we address the question whether the persistence of biological species raises some difficulty for the thesis of the metaphysical equivalence between three-dimensionalism (3D) and four-dimensionalism (4D). We argue that even if one assumes that ‘species’ is a homonymous term that refers to two entities (evolverons or synchronic species...

En este artículo, abordamos el problema de cómo se pueden entender las tendencias variacionales que se atribuyen a los rasgos homólogos en evo-devo. Tras resaltar que las teorías actuales sobre la homología no dan suficiente cuenta de por qué, de hecho, los rasgos varían, proponemos una caracterización de los mismos como tipos naturales disposicion...

In this paper, we address the characterization of the variational tendencies attributed to homologous traits in evo-devo. After arguing that current theories of homology cannot properly explain why traits do, in fact, vary, we propose to characterize them as disposional natural kinds. In doing so, we appeal to metaphysical resources regarding the c...

The debate in Metaphysics of Science concerning the interaction between metaphysics and science has been mainly approached from the perspective of the scientificdiscipline of physics. In this paper, I address this debate from a different framework, namely that of biology. I pay attention to the recent characterization of Metaphysics of Biology and...

Uno de los rasgos propios de la cultura europea es la protección de aquellas personas que, por cuestiones de edad, enfermedad, o por su situación socio-económica, no pueden cuidar de sí mismas. El cuidado del indefenso es, por tanto, un valor de nuestra sociedad actual. Desde la Universidad, y con base en la responsabilidad social implícita en las...

Holobionts are symbiotic assemblages composed by a macrobe host (animal or plant) plus its symbiotic microbiota. In recent years, the ontological status of holobionts has created a great amount of controversy among philosophers and biologists: are holobionts biological individuals or are they rather ecological communities of independent individuals...

Contemporary biological research has suggested that some host–microbiome multispecies systems (referred to as “holobionts”) can in certain circumstances evolve as unique biological individual, thus being a unit of selection in evolution. If this is so, then it is arguably the case that some biological adaptations have evolved at the level of the mu...

Holobionts are symbiotic assemblages composed by a host plus its microbiome. The status of holobionts as individuals has recently been a subject of continuous controversy, which has given rise to two main positions: on the one hand, holobiont advocates argue that holobionts are biological individuals; on the other, holobiont detractors argue that t...

En el IX Congreso de la SLMFCE la filosofía de la biología, y en general aspectos filosóficos de las ciencias de la vida, tuvieron una notable representación. En concreto, tuvieron lugar un total de dieciocho intervenciones centradas en cuestiones biológicas muy diversas, como puede ser la definición del concepto de vida, el estudio de criterios pa...

The notion of fitness is usually equated to reproductive success. However, this actualist approach presents some difficulties, mainly the explanatory circularity problem, which have lead philosophers of biology to offer alternative definitions in which fitness and reproductive success are distinguished. In this paper, we argue that none of these al...