La multidisciplinarietà dell'evoluzione: filosofia, biologia e sintesi

This paper addresses multidisciplinarity by focusing on biology. (1) The cooperation between biology and philosophy is described, mainly through David Hull’s (1989, 2002) evaluations and recommendations. (2) Biology is described as a multidisciplinary and synthetic science in itself, and the relevance and variety of visions on the Modern Synthesis is hinted to. (3) The rising perspective of an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, with a particular emphasis on the example of evolutionary developmental biology (EvoDevo) and its integrative impact on the theory, is problematized. (4) The attention goes again on philosophy of biology and its needed contribution to the growing and changing multidisciplinary world of evolution.