On the processes of growth of the living being and the relevance of relational categories to understand It

Name: On the processes of growth of the living being and the relevance of relational categories to understand It
Brand: Vita e Pensiero
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RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA

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RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA - 2017 - 2

Titolo

On the processes of growth of the living being and the relevance of relational categories to understand It

Autori

Marta Bertolaso, Mattia Della Rocca

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Vita e Pensiero

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11-2017

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0035-6247 (stampa) | 1827-7926 (digitale)

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Recent advances in biological sciences suggest that living beings have to be understood mostly in systemic terms, and characterized by the unitary integration of multiple level of causal dynamics over the time of their «life histories». Such focus on the interplay of synchronic and diachronic factors in the organism’s processes of growth appeals to an overcoming of mereology, but it also entails the need for an ontological and epistemological reflection, which can find support in some recent experimental and theoretical advances from different subfields of biomedical sciences. In this paper, we advocate the value of a relational and processual ontology in order to account for the systemic and multi-level unity that characterizes the phenomena of life, firstly providing a review of relational ontology and of its value in relationship to temporality, secondly drawing suggestions from the analysis of developmental processes in oncology and neuroscience.