Mefisto. Rivista di medicina, filosofia, storia

Indice / Table of Contents

● Saggi / Essays

Mirko Di Bernardo, Francesco Verde, Philosophical reflections on the generative dimension of meaning in natural language 9

Maria Chiara Milighetti, Le donne di Francesco Redi. Scritture femminili nel carteggio familiare dello scienziato aretino 31

● Focus

Function and Dysfunction: Revising, Expanding, and Questioning Two Core Concepts in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Part one: Theoretical Foundations
A cura di / Edited by M. Cristina Amoretti, Rebecca R. Cuciniello, Claudio Davini

Introduction 61

Antoine C. Dussault, Generalized Selected Effects Functions, the Liberality Problem, and Interspecific Competition 65

Tiago Rama, León Trelles, Towards other hybrid theories on mental health: A critical revision of Wakefield’s theory from the philosophy of biological functions 89

Alejandro Gordillo-García, Mirko Gatti, Iuris Mocchiutti, Design Without Designer? Function and Dysfunction in Cultural Evolutionary Theory 113

Giulia Gandolfi, Biological function, psychological function, normative function: On the concept of function in Georges Canguilhem’s philosophy of life 135 James Turner, Fabian Hundertmark, Swampman goes to the doctor 163

● Recensioni / Reviews

Elisabetta Lalumera, Health, Well-Being, and Quality of Life. A Philosophical Analysis (Noemi Paciscopi) 185

Maria Cristina Amoretti, Una scienza libera? Il ruolo dei valori nella ricerca scientifica (Federico Boem) 191 Franco Basaglia, Fare l’impossibile. Ragionando di psichiatria e potere, a cura di Marica Setaro (Francesco Stoppa) 196