Dipartimento di Filosofia

Given as a starting point George Canguilhem’s philosophy, the aim of this research is to propose a critical analysis about the category of normality, investigating the normativity’s biological status, typical of the human being, under the spotlight of the interaction between organism, environment and technics. This topic will be mainly addressed under the perspective of medicine, which has such a big part, as a technique, in acting on the living organism’s naturality, through moving and reconfiguring it, or in some particular cases by dissolving the boundaries between biological organisms and technical items. According to us, it is especially for this reason that a new and wider definition of normativity is more than ever required. Areas of interest: Epistemology, Philosophy of Biology, Medical Anthropology, Bioethics, Biopolitics.