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Davide Vecchi studied philosophy at the University of Bologna (Italy) and then obtained the Ph.D. at the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method of the London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom). Before joining the Centro de Filosofia das Ciências (CFCUL) of the University of Lisbon (Portugal), Davide had been Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (Austria) and Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the Universidad de Santiago (Chile). Davide is interested in historical, philosophical and theoretical issues in the life sciences.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Davide Vecchi

Citation names

  • Vecchi, Davide

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6C1D-C0FD-D2A9
ORCID iD
0000-0002-6339-7370

Knowledge fields

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

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2006
Concluded
 Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science (Doctor of Philosophy)
London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
"Epistemological prospects of evolutionary models of the growth of knowledge" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/02/01 - Current Research Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de História e Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/03/01 - 2024/08/31 Evorise: Exploring the evolutionary origin of sentience
2022.05256.PTDC
Principal investigator
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Ongoing
2018/10/01 - 2021/10/01 Emergence in the Natural Sciences: Towards a New Paradigm
PTDC/FER-HFC/30665/2017
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2017/04/01 - 2020/02/01 Manipulating life: a pragmatic approximation to the epistemology of biology
1171017
Research Fellow
Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico, Chile
2017/02/01 - 2019/08/01 BIODECON: Which biodiversity definition for biodiversity conservation?
PTDC/IVC-HFC/1817/2014
Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2011/04/01 - 2014/03/01 The philosophical relevance of microbial research: the emergence of a new domain-general vision of life
11110409
Principal investigator
Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico, Chile
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Cordovil, João L; Santos, Gil C.; Vecchi, Davide. New Mechanism. Explanation, Emergence and Reduction.. Springer International Publishing. 2024.
    10.1007/978-3-031-46917-6
  2. Casetta, Elena; Marques da Silva, Jorge; Vecchi, Davide. From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity. Springer International Publishing. 2019.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-10991-2
Book chapter
  1. Gabriel Vallejos-Baccelliere; Davide Vecchi. "Searching for Protein Folding Mechanisms: On the Insoluble Contrast Between Thermodynamic and Kinetic Explanatory Approaches". 2024.
    10.1007/978-3-031-46917-6_6
  2. Vecchi, Davide. "Drift as a Force of Evolution: A Manipulationist Account". 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-39589-6_9
  3. Vecchi, Davide. "Probing the Process-Based Approach to Biodiversity: Can Plasticity Lead to the Emergence of Novel Units of Biodiversity?". 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-10991-2_12
  4. Vecchi, Davide; Hernández, Isaac. "The epistemological resilience of the concept of morphogenetic field". In Towards a Theory of Development, 79-94. Oxford University Press, 2014.
    10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199671427.003.0005
Edited book
  1. Casetta, Elena; Di Marco, Silvia; Vieira da Silva, Carina; Marques da Silva, Jorge; Vecchi, Davide; Vicente, Luís, ed. A Biodiversidade. O que é e porquê é importante. Lisbon, Portugal: Gradiva. 2018.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Lorenzo Baravalle; Davide Vecchi. "A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation". The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/730219.
    10.1086/730219
  2. Davide Vecchi; Gil Santos. "The Multi-Causal Basis of Developmental Potential Construction". Acta Biotheoretica (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10441-023-09456-8.
    10.1007/s10441-023-09456-8
  3. Davide Vecchi; Giorgio Airoldi. "Herd Immunity: History, Concepts, and Ethical Rationale". Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 66 1 (2023): 38-57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2023.0003.
    10.1353/pbm.2023.0003
  4. Giorgio Airoldi; Davide Vecchi. "The road from evidence to policies and the erosion of the standards of democratic scrutiny in the COVID-19 pandemic". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43 2 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00419-1.
    10.1007/s40656-021-00419-1
  5. Giorgio Airoldi; Davide Vecchi. "Correction to: The road from evidence to policies and the erosion of the standards of democratic scrutiny in the COVID-19 pandemic". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43 2 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00435-1.
    10.1007/s40656-021-00435-1
  6. Gil Santos; Gabriel Vallejos; Davide Vecchi. "A relational-constructionist account of protein macrostructure and function". Foundations of Chemistry (2020): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-020-09373-5.
    10.1007/s10698-020-09373-5
  7. Vecchi, Davide. "Organismality grounds species collective responsibility". Rivista di Estetica (2020): https://doi.org/10.4000/estetica.7259.
    https://doi.org/10.4000/estetica.7259
  8. Vecchi, Davide. "The Interactive Construction of Biological Individuality Through Biotic Entrenchment". Frontiers in Psychology (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02578.
    10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02578
  9. Vecchi, Davide. "DNA is not an ontologically distinctive developmental cause". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2019.101245.
    10.1016/j.shpsc.2019.101245
  10. Vecchi, Davide. "Species are, at the same time, kinds and individuals: a causal argument based on an empirical approach to species identity". Synthese (2019): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02199-5.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02199-5
  11. Davide Vecchi. "Entrenchment implies that physiological and developmental processes are not organism-bound but still organism-centric". Adaptive Behavior (2019): 105971231983880-105971231983880. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712319838801.
    10.1177/1059712319838801
  12. Vecchi, Davide. "From Biological Determination to Entangled Causation". Acta Biotheoretica (2018): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10441-018-9339-6.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10441-018-9339-6
  13. Vecchi, Davide. "Mutational randomness as conditional independence and the experimental vindication of mutational Lamarckism". Biological Reviews (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84958212297&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/brv.12249
  14. Baravalle, L.; Vecchi, D.. "Beyond blindness: On the role of organism and environment in trial generation". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 60 (2016): 25-34. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84989345370&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.shpsc.2016.09.005
  15. Vecchi, D.; Baravalle, L.. "A soul of truth in things erroneous: Popper's "amateurish" evolutionary philosophy in light of contemporary biology". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 36 4 (2015): 525-545. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84924007090&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s40656-014-0047-5
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/12/18 - Current The concept of memory at the intersection of immunology and philosophy: Immune memory, uniqueness and identity
Supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal