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  1. The Circulation of Morphological Knowledge: Understanding “Form” across Disciplines in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.Marco Tamborini - 2022 - Isis 113 (4):747-766.
    This essay pushes the history of a scientific discipline, morphology, toward a broader philosophically informed and cross-disciplinarily engaged history of knowledge. It shows that by looking at how knowledge and practices circulated between scientific disciplines (such as biology) and technoscientific ones (like architecture and design) we can better understand how (morphological) knowledge was produced. By doing so, the analysis contributes to the study of the mechanisms of knowledge exchange between the organic and the technical worlds and, more broadly, to the (...)
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  • The elephant in the room: The biomimetic principle in bio-robotics and embodied AI.Marco Tamborini - 2023 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 97 (C):13-19.
  • Philosophie der Bionik: Das Komponieren von bio-robotischen Formen.Marco Tamborini - 2023 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 71 (1):30-51.
    In this paper, I explore how bio-hybrid forms can be created and combined starting from organic forms. The thesis put forward is epistemological: the combinatorial practice of bionics, biomimetics, biorobotics, and all design strategies inspired by nature is not based on a kind of biomimetic inspiration, i. e., on a kind of imitation of nature, but on a practice of translation. To develop this thesis, I focus on the practices of contemporary biorobotics, first examining the practice of translating natural forms (...)
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  • Organic form and evolution: the morphological problem in twentieth-century italian biology.Marco Tamborini - 2022 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 44 (4):1-17.
    This paper examines the efforts in evolution research to understand form’s structure that developed in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century. In particular, it analyzes how the organic approach in biology and the study of organic form merged in the morphological research agendas of Giuseppe Colosi and Giuseppe Levi. These biologists sought to understand form’s inner composition and structure. First, I will briefly outline the morphological practices and frameworks used to study form changes and structures in the (...)
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  • The morphological paradigm in robotics.Sascha Freyberg & Helmut Hauser - 2023 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 100 (C):1-11.
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