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1 GIOVANNI BONIOLO Department of Health Sciences University of Milano & Biomedical Humanities Unit Department of Experimental Oncology Istituto Europeo di Oncologia Via Adamello, Milano - Italia Off Cell: giovanni.boniolo@unimi.it & giovanni.boniolo@ieo.eu Humanities.aspx Short Profile GIOVANNI BONIOLO, born in Padova (Italy) in Due to his initial training as theoretical physicist (1981) and then as philosopher (1985), he began working in the fields of general philosophy of science and philosophy of physics. Around 2000, he become interested in the philosophical aspects of the life sciences and decided to study molecular biology. Thus he left the community of the philosophers of physics to move to the community of the philosophers of biomedicine and bioethicists. Soon he focused his work on the philosophical foundations of biomedicine and clinical practice and on their ethical implications (especially concerning collective and individual decisions), while maintaining his interest in epistemology. Since 2008, Full Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Dipartimento della Salute, Faculty of Medicine (University of Milan), where he teaches Medical humanities, Clinical ethics, Critical thinking. (He was Associate Professor since 1992 and he is Full Professor since 2001). He teaches also in the School of Medical Genetics and in the School of Medical Statistics of the University of Milano. He is the Director of the research team in Biomedical Humanities at the Department of Experimental Oncology, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia (IEO, Milano). He directs the PhD program in Foundations Of the Life Sciences And Their Ethical Consequences (FOLSATEC) at the European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM,

2 Milano) in collaboration with the University of Milano. (He designed and cofounded this program in 2006). He has designed and founded the first course in Medical Humanities at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Milano. He is member of the Ethics Committee of the University of Milano; he chairs Independent Ethical Committees linked to European projects, and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at the Istituto Firc di Oncologia Molecolare (IFOM, Milano); he is member of Ethics Committee of the VAS Vascular Independent Research & Education European Organisation; he is External Member del Center for the Study of Bioethics of the University of Belgrade; he is Scientific Advisor of the Centro de Filosofia das Ciências of the Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal). He is one of the founding members (2008) of the European Advanced Seminars in the Philosophy of the Life Science resulting from the European network among ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, University of Exeter (Exeter, UK); European School for Molecular Medicine (Milan, Italy); Institut d'histoire de la Médicine et de la Santé (Geneva, Switzerland); Institut d Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris-1 Sorbonne (Paris, France); Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (Altenberg, Austria); Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Berlin, Germany). He is one of the founding members (2012) of the European Advanced Seminars in the Philosophy of Medicine resulting from the international network among European School for Molecular Medicine (Milan, Italy), King s College (London, UK); Paris 1 and University of Tours (France); University of Pittsburgh (USA); Institute for the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine (Mainz, Germany). He serves as reviewer for many international journals and publishing houses, for Italian and European universities and for the European Research Council. He works as counsellor for private companies in the fields of professional ethics and rhetorical ability. He has extensively lectured in many Italian, European and non-european institutions. He is member of Società Italiana Biodiritto; Fondazione Umberto Veronesi; Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia della Scienza; Accademia dei Concordi di Rovigo; Associazione di Biologia Cellulare e del Differenziamento; European Society For Philosophy Of Medicine And Healthcare; International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology; European Philosophy of Science Association; Società Italiana di Storia, Filosofia e Studi Sociali della Biologia e della Medicina. He has been ( ) the Director of the School in Forensic Genetics (organized by Scuola Europea di Medicina Molecolare, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura - Distretto di Milano, Camera Penale di Milano). He is the Director of the Master in Ethical Counseling in Oncology (organized by Scuola Europea di Medicina Molecolare and European School of Oncology). He has organized, directed or co-directed many international conferences.

3 His work and eclectic interests are witnessed by his 13 books (plus 12 books edited) and about 170 papers, most of them published in international peer reviewed journals such as Nature, Axiomathes; Biology and Philosophy; Foundations of Physics; Foundations of Science; History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences; International Philosophical Quarterly; International Studies in the Philosophy of Science; The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science; Philosophy; Bioethics; Journal of Philosophical Logic; Philosophical Explorations; Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences; Journal of Medical Ethics; Journal of Medicine and Philosophy; PLOsONE; Erkenntnis; Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic; Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy; Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology; Journal of Applied Logic, Journal of Medical Humanities. His three latest books: 1) Il pulpito e la piazza. Democrazia, deliberazione e scienze della vita, Raffaello Cortina, Milano 2011; Engl. Translation The Art of Deliberating. Democracy, Deliberation and the Life Sciences between History and Theory, Springer, Heidelberg 2012; 2) Le regole e il sudore. Divagazioni su sport e filosofia, Raffaello Editore, Milano ) (with P. Maugeri), Etica ai confini della biomedicina. Per una cittadinanza consapevole, Mondadori Università, Milano Philosophy of Biomedicine 2013 Selected papers (within the last 10 years) On Molecular Mechanisms and Contexts of Physical Explanation, Biological Theory, 7(2013), ; doi: /s z (with M. D'Agostino, M. Piazza, G. Pulcini), A Logic of Non-Monotonic Interactions, Journal of Applied Logic, 11(2013), 52-62; (with G. Testa), 'The Identity of Living Beings, Epigenetics, and The Modesty of Philosophy', Erkenntnis, 76(2012), DOI /s (with P.P. Di Fiore, M. D Agostino), 'Zsyntax: a formal language for molecular biology with projected applications in text mining and biological prediction', PLOsONE, 5(3): e9511; doi: /journal.pone (with L. Lorusso), 'Clustering Humans. On Biological Boundaries', Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 39 (2008), pp

4 (ed. with S. Giaimo) Filosofia e scienze della vita. Un'analisi dei fondamenti della biologia e della biomedicina (Philosophy and the Life Sciences. An Analysis of the Foundations of Biology and Biomedicine), Bruno Mondadori, Milano (ed. with G. De Anna) Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006; it contains also: G. Boniolo, The Descent of Instinct and the Ascent of Ethics ; G. Boniolo, P. Vezzoni, Genetic Influences on Moral Capacity. What Genetics Mutants Teach Us The Ontogenesis of Human Identity, in A. O'Hear (ed.) Biology, Philosophy and Life, Supplement to Philosophy, n. 56, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2005, pp A Contextualized Approach To Biological Explanation, Philosophy, 80(2005), (with A. Aprile, M. Libero), Causality And Methodology. Notes on Thanatochronological Estimations, History and Philosophy of The Life Sciences, 27 (2005), (with M. Carrara) On Biological Identity, Biology and Philosophy, 19(2004), Che cos'è il caso in biologia? (What is chance in biology?), Atti dei Convegni Lincei, 185(), Biology without Information, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 25(), Ethics & Bioethics Forthcoming (with L. Chiapperino), Rethinking Medical Humanities, Journal of Medical Humanities, Forthcoming, DOI: /s (with G. Schiavone, G. De Anna, M. Mameli, V. Rebba), Libertarian Paternalism and Health Care Policy: A Deliberative Proposal, Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, 17(2014), ; DOI: /s (with P. Maugeri), Etica ai confini della biomedicina. Per una cittadinanza consapevole, Mondadori Università, Milano Is an account of identity necessary for bioethics? What post-genomic biomedicine can teach us, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 44 (2013), ,

5 2012 (with G. Schiavone, M. Annoni, L. Chiapperino), Constructing the Medical Humanities Gaze, Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, 84S2(2012), S5-S10. (with P.P. Di Fiore, S. Pece) Trusted Consent and Research Biobanks. Towards a "new alliance" between researchers and donors, Bioethics, 26(2012), ; doi: /j x. The Art of Deliberating. Democracy, Deliberation and the Life Sciences between history and theory, Springer, Heidelberg (with T. Bruni, M. Mameli, G. Pravettoni) Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening in Veneto (Italy) - An Ethical Analysis, Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, 15 (2012), , DOI /s Il pulpito e la piazza. Democrazia, deliberazione e scienze della vita, Raffaello Cortina, Milano (with P.P. Di Fiore) Deliberative Ethics in a Biomedical Institution. An Example of Integration Between Science and Ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, 36(2010), Methodological Considerations About The Ethical And Social Implications Of Protocells, in M.A. Bedau, E. Parke (eds.), The Ethics of Protocells: Moral and Social Implications of Creating Life in the Laboratory, MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.), 2009, pp (with S. Camporesi) Fearing a Non Existing Minotaur? The Ethical Challenges of Research on Cytoplasmic Hybrid Embryos, Journal of Medical Ethics, 34 (2008), (with P.P Di Fiore) A Defining Analysis of the Life and Death Dyad: Paving the Way for an Ethical Debate, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy,37 (2008), (con G. De Anna, U. Vincenti), Individuo e persona. Tre saggi su chi siamo (Individual and Person. Three essays on who we are), Bompiani Milano 2007 Death and Transplantation: Let's Try To Get Things Methodologically Straight, Bioethics, 21 (2007), (with G. De Anna) The Four Faces of Omission. Ontology, Terminology, Epistemology, and Ethics, Philosophical Explorations, 9 (2006),

6 Il limite e il ribelle. Etica, naturalismo, darwinismo (The Limit and the Rebel. Ethics, Naturalism, Darwinism), Raffaello Cortina, Milano. General Philosophy of Science and Formal Epistemology 2012 (with T. Vaccari) Alarming shift away from sharing results, Nature, 488(2012), 157 (with S. Valentini), Objects. A Study in Kantian Formal Epistemology, Notre Dame Journal of Formal logic, 53(2012), (with R. Faraldo, A. Saggion) Explicating the notion of 'Causation': The Role of the Extensive Quantitites, in P. McKay Illari, F. Russo, J. Williamson (eds.), Mechanisms and Causality in the Sciences, Oxford University Press, (with R. Faraldo, A. Saggion) On Spatial and Temporal ex mensura Boundaries, Foundations of Science, 14(2009), (with S. Valentini) Vaguennes, Kant, and Topology. A Study of Formal Epistemology, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 37 (2008), On Scientific Representations From Kant to a New Philosophy of Science, Palgrave MacMillan, (with P. Vidali) Introduzione alla filosofia della scienza (Introduction to the Philosophy of Science), B. Mondadori, Milano. History of Philosophy and Varia 2013 Le regole e il sudore. Divagazioni su sport e filosofia (Rules and Sweat. On Sport and Philosophy), Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano (with P. Vidali) Strumenti per ragionare (Tools for reasoning), B. Mondadori, Milano

7 Laws of nature: the Kantian approach', in M. Bitbol, P. Kerszberg, and J. Petitot (eds.) Constituting Objectivity: Transcendental Approaches of Modern Physics, Springer Verlag (Western Ontario Series in the Philosophy of Science), 2009, pp (ed. by G.Boniolo) Laicità. Per una geografia delle nostre radici, Einaudi, Torino I modelli del mondo e il caso Galilei. Fra risultati empirici e questioni logico-epistemologiche (Models of the World and Galilei Affaire. Among Empirical Results and Logical Questions), Atti e Memorie dell'accademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Olschki Firenze-Padova, 2004, Kant's Explication and Carnap's Explication: the redde rationem, International Philosophical Quarterly, 43(),