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Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics

Metascience of Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine

Post-doctoral researcher

Davide Serpico, PhD

Davide Serpico is a philosopher of biology, medicine, and cognitive science. His research at INCET involved three topics: a) the impact of recent models and methods in quantitative genetics on medical decision-making; b) the role of gene-environment interactions and epigenetic mechanisms in individual differences; c) the use of ethnoracial categories in genomics.

Davide got the Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2018 at the Northwestern Italian Philosophy Consortium with a thesis on human intelligence and the nature-nurture debate. Between 2016 and 2022, he conducted research at the University di Exeter (UK), the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Hayama, Japan), the University of Leeds (UK), the University of Genoa (Italy), and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (Cambridge, UK).

Selected Publications (until 2022)

Articles

Amoretti, M. C., Lalumera, E. & Serpico, D. (2021). The DSM-5 Introduction of the Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder as a new mental disorder in DSM-5: A Philosophical Review. History and Philosophy of the Life Science, 43(108).
Serpico, D. & Amoretti, M. C. (2021). Covid-19 and Ageing: Four Alternative Conceptual Frameworks. History and Philosophy of the Life Science.
Serpico, D. (2021). The Cyclical Return of the IQ Controversy: Revisiting the Lessons of the Resolution on Genetics, Race and Intelligence. Journal of the History of Biology, 54, 199-228.
Onishi, Y. & Serpico, D. (2021). Homeostatic Property Cluster Theory without Homeostatic Mechanisms: Two Recent Attempts and their Costs. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 53, 61-82.
Serpico, D., Amoretti, M. C. & Frixione, M. (2020). The Spirit of Cocktails: On the Conceptual Structure of Cocktail Recipes. Humana.Mente, 13(38), 37-59. ISSN: 1972-1293
Serpico, D. & Borghini, A. (2020). From Obesity to Energy Metabolism: Ontological Perspectives on the Metrics of Human Bodies. Topoi, 40, 577-586.
Serpico, D. (2020). Beyond Quantitative and Qualitative Traits: Three Telling Cases in the Life Sciences. Biology and Philosophy, 35(3), 1-26.
Serpico, D. & Frasnelli, E. (2018). When the Standard Approach in Comparative Neuroscience Fails and When It Works: General Intelligence and Brain Asymmetries. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 13, 95-98.
Serpico, D. (2018). What Kind of Kind Is Intelligence? Philosophical Psychology, 31(2), 232-252.

Books and Edited Volumes

Serpico D., Lynch, K. E., & Porter, T. M. (forthcoming). New Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Quantitative Genetics. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.
Serpico D. (2022). L’intelligenza tra natura e cultura. Turin: Rosenberg & Sellier. ISBN: 9791259930507
Amoretti, M. C. & Serpico, D. (2022). Filosofia della scienza: Parole chiave. Rome: Carocci. ISBN: 9788829012305
Borghini A. & Serpico, D. (2021). Understanding Hunger: Philosophical, Psychological and Medical Perspectives. Topoi, 40(3).

Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics

Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics