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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Maurizio Esposito

Citation names

  • Esposito, Maurizio

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5B15-E257-8BD6
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6476-7997

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - History and Philisophy of Science and Technology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2008/09/30 - 2012/01/12
Concluded
 Philosophy (Doctor of Philosophy)
University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution		 Employer
2024/10/14 - Current Principal Investigator (Research) Università degli Studi di Milano Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Italy
2020/09/01 - 2024/10/10 Principal Investigator (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution		 Employer
2019/03/10 - 2020/06/05 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil
2012/07/23 - 2019/03/04 Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidad de Santiago de Chile Facultad de Humanidades, Chile
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/03/01 - 2024/08/31 Explorando a origem evolutiva da senciência
2022.05256.PTDC
10.54499/2022.05256.PTDC
FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Vico and the Maker's Knowledge Tradition : Praxis and History. Cambridge University Press. 2025.
    10.1017/9781009436007
  2. Esposito, M.; Delgado, A.N.. The history of the "Red Man": William Bollaert and the indigenous people of the Americas. 2018.
  3. Esposito, M.. The organismal synthesis: Holistic science and developmental evolution in the english-speaking world, 1915-1954. 2017.
  4. Maurizio Esposito. Romantic Biology, 1890–1945. Routledge. 2015.
    10.4324/9781315654539
Book chapter
  1. "Deconstructing and Reconstructing the History of Evolutionary Thought: An Agenda for a “Post-Darwinian” Historiography". 443-473. Springer, 2024.
    10.1007/978-3-031-42629-2_15
  2. Maurizio Esposito. "The Problem of “Organismal Agency” in the History of the Life Sciences". 2024.
    10.4324/9781003413318-3
  3. "“Reformist” and “Radical” Historiographies Behind and Beyond the Unity and Disunity of the Evolutionary Thought". 9-18. Springer, 2024.
    10.1007/978-3-031-42629-2_2
  4. "The Historian’s Craft in the “Periphery”: A Critical Overview of the Historiography of Life Sciences in Latin America". 39-62. Springer, 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-030-74723-7_28
  5. "Cathedrals, Corals and Mycelia: Three Analogies for the History of Evolutionary Biology". 11-35. Springer, 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-65536-5_2
  6. "Lo material, lo ideal y la historia: algunas reflexiones en torno al “materialismo” darwiniano". 145-167. College Publications, 2021.
  7. "Manos que piensan y mentes que hacen: Algunas reflexiones en torno a la epistemología de Giambattista Vico". 225-247. Centro de Investigaciones PEIP,, 2021.
  8. "Performative Epistemology and the Philosophy of Experimental Biology: A Synoptic Overview". 47-67. Springer, 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-39589-6_4
  9. "Kantian ticks, Uexküllian melodies, and the transformation of transcendental philosophy". 36-51. Taylor & Francis, 2019.
  10. "A. W. F. Edwards, R. A. Fisher, and The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection". 376-385. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
    10.1017/9781316276259.038
  11. Esposito, Maurizio. "The Organismal Synthesis: Holistic Science and Developmental Evolution in the English-Speaking World, 1915–1954". In The Darwinian Tradition in Context, 219-241. Springer International Publishing, 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-69123-7_10
  12. "El futuro de los genes: el papel de las expectativas en la producción del conocimiento tecno-científico". 271-297. Ril Editores, 2017.
Edited book
  1. Unity and Disunity in Evolutionary Biology : Deconstructing Darwinism. Springer. 2024.
    10.1007/978-3-031-42629-2
Journal article
  1. Maria Raffa; Thomas Bonnin; Maurizio Esposito; Luca Guzzardi; Sahar Tavakoli. "Philosophy of the Physical Sciences, Biology and Health in Milan". The Reasoner (2025): https://doi.org/10.54103/1757-0522/30080.
    10.54103/1757-0522/30080
  2. Maurizio Esposito. "“Homo ex Machina”: A historico-philosophical analysis of the machine–organism analogy". The Reasoner (2025): https://doi.org/10.54103/1757-0522/30066.
    10.54103/1757-0522/30066
  3. "Darwin’s “Horrid” Doubt Revisited: A Critical Reassessment of Evolutionary Arguments against Truth". FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE (2025): https://air.unimi.it/handle/2434/1202954.
    10.1007/s10699-025-10018-z
  4. "Three Marxist Lessons for 21st-Century History and Philosophy of Science". SCIENCE & SOCIETY 88 2 (2024): 184-211. https://air.unimi.it/handle/2434/1113978.
    10.1521/siso.2024.88.2.184
  5. "Las máquinas como organismos: de objetos proxy a herramientas epistémicas (y al revés)". LUDUS VITALIS 30 1 (2024): 65-81. https://air.unimi.it/handle/2434/1115079.
    10.22370/lv.2024.30.1.4495
  6. Esposito, Maurizio; Baravalle, Lorenzo. "The machine-organism relation revisited". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 45 3 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-023-00587-2.
    10.1007/s40656-023-00587-2
  7. "Sherrie L. Lyons, <i>From Cells to Organisms: Re-envisioning Cell Theory</i>". Social History of Medicine (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkab002.
    10.1093/shm/hkab002
  8. "Amanda Jo Goldstein. Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life. viii + 330 pp., figs., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2017. $35 (paper). ISBN 9780226484709.". Isis 111 2 (2020): 377-378. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/708772.
    10.1086/708772
  9. "Beyond Haeckel’s Law: Walter Garstang and the Evolutionary Biology that Might Have Been". Journal of the History of Biology 53 2 (2020): 249-268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-020-09602-9.
    10.1007/s10739-020-09602-9
  10. "Falconer, Darwin y el Derecho Anglosajón: Como Repensar la “Estructura” de la Teoría Evolutiva". PERI 12 1 (2020): 87-111. https://air.unimi.it/handle/2434/1115081.
  11. Esposito, Maurizio; Baravalle, Lorenzo. Corresponding author: Esposito, Maurizio. "Falconer, Darwin y el Derecho Anglosajón: Como Repensar la “Estructura” de la Teoría Evolutiva". Peri 12 1 (2020): 87-111.
    Published
  12. Esposito, Maurizio. "En el principio era la mano: Ernst Kapp y la relación entre máquina y organismo". Humanities Journal of Valparaiso 14 (2019): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.22370/rhv2019iss14pp117-138.
    10.22370/rhv2019iss14pp117-138
  13. Maurizio Esposito. "Sobre el uso y significado de la Historia en Filosofía de la Ciencia". Revista Colombiana de Filosofía de la Ciencia 18 37 (2018): 91-117. https://doi.org/10.18270/rcfc.v18i37.2569.
    10.18270/rcfc.v18i37.2569
  14. Esposito, Maurizio. "From “life” to biology and backward: The long gestation of a scientific discipline". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 70 (2018): 29-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2018.05.010.
    10.1016/j.shpsc.2018.05.010
  15. Maurizio Esposito. "Marcel Weber y la filosofía de la biología experimental: la cultura material de las ciencias entre pasado y futuro". Scientiae Studia 15 2 (2018): 489-489. https://doi.org/10.11606%2F51678-31662017000200013.
    10.11606/51678-31662017000200013
  16. Esposito, Maurizio. "Erik L. Peterson. The Life Organic: The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenetics. xvi + 334 pp., figs., bibl., index. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. $31.50 (cloth).". Isis 109 1 (2018): 216-217. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/696607.
    10.1086/696607
  17. Esposito, M.. "Expectation and futurity: The remarkable success of genetic determinism". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 62 (2017): 1-9. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85009182082&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.shpsc.2017.01.001
  18. Esposito, M.. "From human science to biology: The second synthesis of Ronald Fisher". History of the Human Sciences 29 3 (2016): 44-62. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84978705128&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1177/0952695116653866
  19. Esposito, M.. "More than the parts: W. E. Ritter, the Scripps Marine association, and the organismal conception of life". Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 45 2 (2015): 273-302. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84926429098&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1525/hsns.2015.45.2.273
  20. Maurizio Esposito. "Problematic “Idiosyncrasies”: Rediscovering the Historical Context of D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Science of Form". Science in Context 27 01 (2014): 79-107. https://doi.org/10.1017%2Fs0269889713000392.
    10.1017/s0269889713000392
  21. "Multilevel Causation and the Extended Synthesis". BIOLOGICAL THEORY 9 2 (2014): 209-220. https://air.unimi.it/handle/2434/1114972.
    10.1007/s13752-014-0161-3
  22. Esposito, M.. "Problematic idiosyncrasies: Rediscovering the historical context of D'Arcy wentworth Thompson's science of form". Science in Context 27 1 (2014): 79-107. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84893724675&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1017/S0269889713000392
  23. Esposito, M.. "Weismann Versus Morgan Revisited: Clashing Interpretations on Animal Regeneration". Journal of the History of Biology 46 3 (2013): 511-541. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84880850682&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s10739-012-9341-9
  24. Esposito, M.. "Heredity, development and evolution: The unmodern synthesis of E.S. Russell". Theory in Biosciences 132 3 (2013): 165-180. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84890309235&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s12064-013-0177-4
  25. Esposito, M.. "Utopianism in the British evolutionary synthesis". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 42 1 (2011): 40-49. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79551574568&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.shpsc.2010.11.007
  26. Esposito, Maurizio. "G. Richard Delisle, Les Philosophies du néo-darwinisme. Preface by Jean Gayon. Paris: Presses universitaires France, 2009. Pp. 456. ISBN 978-2130566267. Canadian $56.70 (paperback).". The British Journal for the History of Science 43 2 (2010): 315-317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087410000701.
    10.1017/s0007087410000701

Other

Other output
  1. Toward a New Historiography. 2024. https://air.unimi.it/handle/2434/1114974.
    10.1007/978-3-031-42629-2_1
  2. Kate MacCord, How Does Germline Regenerate? Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 168. ISBN 978-0-226-83051-3. 2024. https://air.unimi.it/handle/2434/1125036.
    10.1017/s0007087424001134