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La Natura come artista

2016

Le anime cellulari e le cellule dell’anima

2016

Forme in evoluzione. Morfologia del vivente e psicologia cellulare

2016

Ernst Haeckel, scienziato per professione e artista per passione, mise l’arte a disposizione delle ricerche morfologiche, proponendo una scienza unitaria del vivente, in grado di comprendere l’organismo nella sua totalità funzionale ed estetica. Nei tre saggi qui raccolti egli indaga la forma esteriore dei viventi, cogliendo in essa l’indicazione di una vita interiore, una vis plastica che anima la Natura in ogni sua manifestazione, dà impulso alla differenziazione funzionale e sancisce la continuità fra organico e inorganico. Espressioni come “vita dei cristalli” e “anima cellulare” appaiono qui prive di contraddizione e la Natura, creatrice inconscia di forme, diviene essa stessa un’opera…

Il disegno come immagine adeguata del reale. Ernst Haeckel, l’illustrazione scientifica e la controversia sulla riproduzione fotografica del vivente

2020

The works of Ernst Haeckel, one of the staunchest defenders of Darwin and amateur artist, brought Goethian morphology to new horizons, contributing to the affirmation of evolutionism. Overcoming the traditional disciplinary boundaries, he promoted a “biological Aesthetics”, convinced that the artistic representation of living forms is more profound and stimulating for science than any photographic reproduction. In fact, in his opinion, the scientist is a free interpreter of vital phenomena and his drawings are able of grasping the essence of biological processes. Reading some Haeckelian works, in this article we will try to clarify why the photographer has a passive view of the world, repro…

Forma esteriore e vita interiore: Ernst Haeckel e la morfologia del vivente

2016

Ernst Haeckel, scienziato per professione e artista per passione, mise l’arte a disposizione delle ricerche morfologiche, proponendo una scienza unitaria del vivente, in grado di comprendere l’organismo nella sua totalità funzionale ed estetica. Nei tre saggi qui raccolti egli indaga la forma esteriore dei viventi, cogliendo in essa l’indicazione di una vita interiore, una vis plastica che anima la natura in ogni sua manifestazione, dà impulso alla differenziazione funzionale e sancisce la continuità fra organico e inorganico. Espressioni come “vita dei cristalli” e “anima cellulare” appaiono qui prive di contraddizione e la natura, creatrice inconscia di forme, diviene essa stessa un’opera…

Appendice Biobibliografica

2016

Human amniotic stem cells improve hepatic microvascular dysfunction and portal hypertension in cirrhotic rats

2020

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Portal hypertension is the main consequence of cirrhosis, responsible for the complications defining clinical decompensation. The only cure for decompensated cirrhosis is liver transplantation, but it is a limited resource and opens the possibility of regenerative therapy. We investigated the potential of primary human amniotic membrane-derived mesenchymal stromal (hAMSCs) and epithelial (hAECs) stem cells for the treatment of portal hypertension and decompensated cirrhosis. METHODS In vitro: Primary liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) and hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) from cirrhotic rats (chronic CCl4 inhalation) were co-cultured with hAMSCs, hAECs or vehicle for…

Plantinga’s Haecceitism and Simple Quantified Modal Logic

2017

In a series of papers Alvin Plantinga argued for a serious actualist modal semantics based on the notions of possible world, understood as maximal possible state of affairs, and of individual essence (haecceity). Plantinga’s actualism is known as haecceitism. In spite of the fact that haecceitism has been thought by Plantinga to require a Kripke-style semantics, the aim of this paper is to show that it is compatible with constant domains semantics and the simplest quantified modal logic. I will argue that not only does this approach have all the advantages of a greater simplicity in combining quantification and modalities, but also it better conforms to the actualist program.

Il corpo come strumento della sensibilità: riflessioni sul conoscere e il sentire fra estetica e fisiologia

2016

Since its origins, the controversial relationship between sensible knowledge and conceptual knowledge is a central problem of aesthetics. The reflections of A.G. Baumgarten, the “father of modern aesthetics”, played a key role for the revaluation of senses and corporeity, although, in his works, the constructability of aesthetics is not extended to physiological topics yet. In this article we aim to understand the role played by senses and body structure in all living beings, from unicellular organisms to human beings; at the same time, we try to understand the importance of senses for environmental comprehension, adopting a morphological perspective and keeping together philosophical and s…

Ernst Haeckel e il “rompicapo” dello sviluppo embrionale tra arte e scienza

2018

Every biological form can be explained as the product of two different processes: the development from the egg (also known as “ontogenesis”) and the evolution from the ancestors (the “phylogenesis”). Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionism, recognized the importance of both processes to explain the variety of living creatures and their relationship, but only a few of his followers were aware of this theoretical connection. In this article we will try to understand how the evolutionist scientist Ernst Haeckel elaborate his embryological theories and, in particular, the well-known “theory of recapitulation”, also known as “biogenetic law”. Furthermore, we will try to discover the value of …